"Because I said so" and other dead-end reasons, sentence 10
Kids roll their eyes at the dead end, not at the parent: "Phones are bad because they're bad.
Who acts: Kids, Phones · What happens: roll, be · To what, where: eyes, dead end · 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 (Kids, Phones), 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 | Kids | kid | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 roll | nsubj |
| 2 | roll | roll | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 4 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 roll | obj |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 end | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 end | det |
| 7 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 end | amod |
| 8 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 roll | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 parent | punct |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 parent | advmod |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 parent | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 parent | det |
| 13 | parent | parent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 roll | obl |
| 14 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 18 bad | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 bad | punct |
| 16 | Phones | phone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 bad | nsubj |
| 17 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 bad | cop |
| 18 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 parent | parataxis |
| 19 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 22 bad | mark |
| 20 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 bad | nsubj |
| 21 | 're | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 bad | cop |
| 22 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 bad | advcl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 roll | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- character
- polarity
- neg
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | roll | present | Kids | Kids's eyes | at the dead end | at the parent | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.agent V NP.theme PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: agent=Agent eye=Theme at end=Source at parent=Trajectory | ||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | Phones | bad property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | Phones = phone | bad property | tree rules |
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:10.
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): 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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