Putting it together: explain each side, check the claim, sentence 3
Explaining each side is like a referee who knows both teams' tactics without wearing either shirt: a sugar tax, an age limit for social media, how to end a war, each has people who think hard and disagree.
Who acts: Explaining, referee, each, people · What happens: explain, be, know, wear, end, have · To what, where: side, tactics, shirt, war, people
This is a sentence of the lesson «Putting it together: explain each side, check the claim» of the politics 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 (Explaining, referee, each, people), 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 | Explaining | explain | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 referee | csubj |
| 2 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 side | det |
| 3 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Explaining | obj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 referee | cop |
| 5 | like | like | ADP | _ | 7 referee | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 referee | det |
| 7 | referee | referee | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 knows | nsubj |
| 9 | knows | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 referee | acl:relcl |
| 10 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 teams | det |
| 11 | teams | team | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 tactics | nmod:poss |
| 12 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 11 teams | case |
| 13 | tactics | tactic | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 knows | obj |
| 14 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 15 wearing | mark |
| 15 | wearing | wear | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 knows | advcl |
| 16 | either | either | DET | PronType=Ind | 17 shirt | det |
| 17 | shirt | shirt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 wearing | obj |
| 18 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 21 tax | punct |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 tax | det |
| 20 | sugar | sugar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 tax | compound |
| 21 | tax | tax | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 referee | conj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 limit | punct |
| 23 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 limit | det |
| 24 | age | age | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 limit | compound |
| 25 | limit | limit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 tax | conj |
| 26 | for | for | ADP | _ | 28 media | case |
| 27 | social | social | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 media | amod |
| 28 | media | media | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 limit | nmod |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 end | punct |
| 30 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 32 end | advmod |
| 31 | to | to | PART | _ | 32 end | mark |
| 32 | end | end | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 tax | parataxis |
| 33 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 34 war | det |
| 34 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 end | obj |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 has | punct |
| 36 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 37 has | nsubj |
| 37 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 32 end | conj |
| 38 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 37 has | obj |
| 39 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 40 think | nsubj |
| 40 | think | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 38 people | acl:relcl |
| 41 | hard | hard | ADV | Degree=Pos | 40 think | advmod |
| 42 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 43 disagree | cc |
| 43 | disagree | disagree | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 40 think | conj |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 referee | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | explain speech: assert | gerund | each side | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent side=Topic | |||||
| 2 | is | present | Explaining | like a referee and a sugar tax and a age limit for social media | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | know | present | a referee and a sugar tax and a age limit for social media | both teams's tactics | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer tactic=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | wear | gerund | a referee and a sugar tax and a age limit for social media not said here | either shirt | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent shirt=Theme | ||||
| 5 | end | to-infinitive | a war | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality war=Eventuality | |||||
| 6 | have | present | each | people | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Patient | ||||
| 7 | think speech: other | present | people | hard property | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 8 | disagree | present | people not said here | vn correspond-36.1 «NP V»: agent=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:politics:040-putting-it-together.lesson:3.
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.
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