"Because I said so" and other dead-end reasons, sentence 1
Mum: "Because I said so." He asks why again.
Who acts: Ethan · What happens: say, ask · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «"Because I said so" and other dead-end reasons» 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 (Ethan), 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 | Mum | mum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 said | dep |
| 2 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 1 Mum | punct |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
| 4 | Because | because | SCONJ | _ | 6 said | mark |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 said | nsubj |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | so | so | ADV | _ | 6 said | advmod |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
| 10 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 asks | nsubj |
| 11 | asks | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 said | parataxis |
| 12 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 11 asks | advmod |
| 13 | again | again | ADV | _ | 11 asks | advmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 asks | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- character
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=narrate
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | Ethan | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | present | Ethan | again | vn inquire-37.1.2 «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:world:163-because-i-said-so-dead-end-reasons.lesson:1.
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): R5-strong ×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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