Olympiad: fair or unfair, chains of reasons and dilemmas ★★★, sentence 2
Chains of events work the same way: if Ali grabs Ben's ball, Ben shoves Ali, and Ali falls on Cal's sandcastle, each person owes a sorry for their own link, and nobody's sorry wipes out someone else's.
Who acts: Chains, Ali, Ben, person, nobody, sorry · What happens: work, grab, shove, fall, owe, sorry · To what, where: same way, ball, Ali, sandcastle, sorry, someone
This is a sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: fair or unfair, chains of reasons and dilemmas ★★★» of the religion ethics 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 (Chains, Ali, Ben, person), 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 | Chains | chain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 work | nsubj |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 3 events | case |
| 3 | events | event | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Chains | nmod |
| 4 | work | work | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 way | det |
| 6 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 way | amod |
| 7 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 work | obj |
| 8 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 11 grabs | punct |
| 9 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 11 grabs | mark |
| 10 | Ali | Ali | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 grabs | nsubj |
| 11 | grabs | grab | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 owes | advcl |
| 12 | Ben | Ben | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 ball | nmod:poss |
| 13 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 12 Ben | case |
| 14 | ball | ball | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 grabs | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 shoves | punct |
| 16 | Ben | Ben | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 shoves | nsubj |
| 17 | shoves | shove | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 grabs | conj |
| 18 | Ali | Ali | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 shoves | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 falls | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 falls | cc |
| 21 | Ali | Ali | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 falls | nsubj |
| 22 | falls | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 shoves | conj |
| 23 | on | on | ADP | _ | 26 sandcastle | case |
| 24 | Cal | Cal | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 sandcastle | nmod:poss |
| 25 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 24 Cal | case |
| 26 | sandcastle | sandcastle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 falls | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 owes | punct |
| 28 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 29 person | det |
| 29 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 owes | nsubj |
| 30 | owes | owe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 work | parataxis |
| 31 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 32 sorry | det |
| 32 | sorry | sorry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 owes | obj |
| 33 | for | for | ADP | _ | 36 link | case |
| 34 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 36 link | nmod:poss |
| 35 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 link | amod |
| 36 | link | link | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 sorry | obl |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 wipes | punct |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 42 wipes | cc |
| 39 | nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 41 sorry | nsubj |
| 40 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 39 nobody | case |
| 41 | sorry | sorry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 wipes | nsubj |
| 42 | wipes | wipe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 owes | conj |
| 43 | out | out | ADP | _ | 42 wipes | compound:prt |
| 44 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 42 wipes | obj |
| 45 | else | else | ADV | _ | 44 someone | advmod |
| 46 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 44 someone | case |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 work | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | work | present | Chains of events | the same way | vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent way=Material | ||||
| 2 | grab a condition, not said to happen | present | Ali | Ben's ball | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ball=Theme | ||||
| 3 | shove | present | Ben | Ali | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ali=Theme | ||||
| 4 | fall | present | Ali | Cal's sandcastle | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on sandcastle=Location | ||||
| 5 | owe | present | each person | a sorry | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent sorry=Theme | ||||
| 6 | sorry | nobody | tree rules | ||||||
| 7 | wipe out | present | sorry | someone | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent someone=Source |
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:religion-ethics:103-olympiad-fair-or-unfair-chains-of-reasons-and-dilemmas.lesson:2.
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): R7-rel-agree ×1. 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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