"Because I said so" and other dead-end reasons, sentence 16
Vegetables give your body fibre and vitamins, which is a real reason to eat peas, today and long ago.
Who acts: Vegetables, body fibre · What happens: give, be, eat · To what, where: body fibre, real reason, peas
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 (Vegetables, body fibre), 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 | Vegetables | vegetable | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 give | nsubj |
| 2 | give | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 fibre | nmod:poss |
| 4 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 fibre | compound |
| 5 | fibre | fibre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 give | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 vitamins | cc |
| 7 | vitamins | vitamin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 fibre | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 reason | punct |
| 9 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 reason | nsubj |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 reason | cop |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 reason | det |
| 12 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 reason | amod |
| 13 | reason | reason | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 fibre | acl:relcl |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 eat | mark |
| 15 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 reason | acl |
| 16 | peas | pea | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 eat | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 today | punct |
| 18 | today | today | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 eat | obl:unmarked |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 ago | cc |
| 20 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 21 ago | advmod |
| 21 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 18 today | conj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 give | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | present | Vegetables | your body fibre and vitamins | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fibre=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | your body fibre and vitamins | a real reason | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | eat | to-infinitive | Vegetables not said here | peas | today | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pea=Patient |
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:16.
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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