When the teacher gets it wrong, sentence 4
Start by agreeing with what's right, and offer your evidence instead of demanding to win.
Who acts: you, your · What happens: start, agree, be, offer, demand, win · To what, where: evidence
This is a sentence of the lesson «When the teacher gets it wrong» of the myths course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, your), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Start | start | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 3 agreeing | mark |
| 3 | agreeing | agree | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 1 Start | advcl |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 5 what | case |
| 5 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 3 agreeing | obl |
| 6 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 right | cop |
| 7 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 what | acl:relcl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 offer | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 offer | cc |
| 10 | offer | offer | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Start | conj |
| 11 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 evidence | nmod:poss |
| 12 | evidence | evidence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 offer | obj |
| 13 | instead | instead | ADV | ExtPos=SCONJ | 15 demanding | mark |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 instead | fixed |
| 15 | demanding | demand | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 offer | advcl |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 win | mark |
| 17 | win | win | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 demanding | xcomp |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Start | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | start | imperative | you not said here | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | agree speech: agree | gerund | you not said here | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V PP.co-agent how S»: agent=Agent with what=Co-Agent | |||||
| 3 | is | present | right property | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | offer | infinitive | you not said here | your evidence | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent evidence=Theme | ||||
| 5 | demand speech: request | gerund | you not said here | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Precondition | |||||
| 6 | win | to-infinitive | you not said here | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 7 | evidence | your | nom evidence «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, mova-school-agreed-en.conllu) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence school:myths:033-when-the-teacher-gets-it-wrong.lesson:4.
The tree: Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): no change. The frames are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (prag) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.
See the release 0.4.
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