"Because I said so" and other dead-end reasons, sentence 11
Somebody write that down, it's science." A good adult can laugh and then give the real reason.
Who acts: Somebody, reason, good adult · What happens: write down, be, laugh, give · To what, where: that, science, real reason · 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 (Somebody, reason, good adult), 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 | Somebody | somebody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 2 write | nsubj |
| 2 | write | write | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 3 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 write | obj |
| 4 | down | down | ADP | _ | 2 write | compound:prt |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 science | punct |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 science | nsubj |
| 7 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 science | cop |
| 8 | science | science | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 write | parataxis |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 write | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 laugh | punct |
| 11 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 adult | det |
| 12 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 adult | amod |
| 13 | adult | adult | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 laugh | nsubj |
| 14 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 laugh | aux |
| 15 | laugh | laugh | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 write | parataxis |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 give | cc |
| 17 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 18 give | advmod |
| 18 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 laugh | conj |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 reason | det |
| 20 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 reason | amod |
| 21 | reason | reason | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 give | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 write | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- character
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | write down | infinitive | Somebody | that | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Agent that=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | reason | science | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | laugh in a quote | can | a good adult | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | give in a quote | infinitive | a good adult not said here | the real reason | then | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reason=Theme |
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: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): 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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