"Because I said so" and other dead-end reasons, sentence 17
Changing a deal after the other person has kept it is called moving the goalposts.
Who acts: other person · What happens: change, keep, call, move · To what, where: deal, goalposts · 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 (other person), 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 | Changing | change | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 called | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 deal | det |
| 3 | deal | deal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Changing | obj |
| 4 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 9 kept | mark |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 person | det |
| 6 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 person | amod |
| 7 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 kept | nsubj |
| 8 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 kept | aux |
| 9 | kept | keep | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 1 Changing | advcl |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 kept | obj |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 called | aux:pass |
| 12 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 13 | moving | move | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 called | xcomp |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 goalposts | det |
| 15 | goalposts | goalpost | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 moving | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 called | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | change | gerund | a deal | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent deal=Patient | |||||
| 2 | keep | present · perfect | the other person | deal | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 3 | call | present · passive | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | move | gerund | the goalposts | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent goalpost=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:17.
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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