Lucky socks and Grandma's superstitions, sentence 11
"It happened after, so it was caused by it" is a trap; grown-ups call it post hoc.
Who acts: It, belief, grown ups · What happens: happen, cause, be, call, post · To what, where: superstition, trap · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Lucky socks and Grandma's superstitions» of the world 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 (It, belief, grown ups), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 happened | punct |
| 2 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 happened | nsubj |
| 3 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 call | parataxis |
| 4 | after | after | ADV | _ | 3 happened | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 caused | punct |
| 6 | so | so | ADV | _ | 9 caused | advmod |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 caused | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 caused | aux:pass |
| 9 | caused | cause | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 happened | parataxis |
| 10 | by | by | ADP | _ | 11 it | case |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 caused | obl:agent |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 trap | punct |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 trap | cop |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 trap | det |
| 15 | trap | trap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 happened | parataxis |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 3 happened | punct |
| 17 | grown | grow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 ups | compound |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 ups | punct |
| 19 | ups | up | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 call | nsubj |
| 20 | call | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 call | obj |
| 22 | post | post | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 hoc | amod |
| 23 | hoc | hoc | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 call | xcomp |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 20 call | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen in a quote | past | It | after property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | cause in a quote | past · passive | belief | superstition | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition subject=Patient | ||||
| 3 | is a | present | a trap | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | call speech: assert | present | grown ups | superstition | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | post | participle | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: 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:world:161-lucky-socks-and-grandmas-superstitions.lesson:11.
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, R8-pos-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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