"Because I said so" and other dead-end reasons, sentence 18
Treating a small chance as a sure thing, or a small step as the start of a disaster, is called worst-case thinking or the slippery slope.
Who acts: Treating · What happens: treat, call, start · To what, where: small chance, case thinking, disaster · 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 (Treating), 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 | Treating | treat | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 22 called | csubj:pass |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 chance | det |
| 3 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 chance | amod |
| 4 | chance | chance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Treating | obj |
| 5 | as | as | ADP | _ | 8 thing | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 thing | det |
| 7 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 thing | amod |
| 8 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Treating | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 step | punct |
| 10 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 13 step | cc |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 step | det |
| 12 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 step | amod |
| 13 | step | step | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Treating | obl |
| 14 | as | as | ADP | _ | 16 start | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 start | det |
| 16 | start | start | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 step | nmod |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 disaster | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 disaster | det |
| 19 | disaster | disaster | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 start | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Treating | punct |
| 21 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 called | aux:pass |
| 22 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 23 | worst | bad | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 25 case | amod |
| 24 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 23 worst | punct |
| 25 | case | case | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 thinking | compound |
| 26 | thinking | thinking | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 called | xcomp |
| 27 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 30 slope | cc |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 slope | det |
| 29 | slippery | slippery | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 slope | amod |
| 30 | slope | slope | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 thinking | conj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 22 called | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | treat | gerund | a small chance | as a sure thing; a small step as the start of a disaster obl | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent chance=Theme as thing=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | call speech: assert | present · passive | Treating | case thinking or the slippery slope | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V» | ||||
| 3 | start | a disaster | nom start «event transitive»: of=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:18.
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 ×2. 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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