"Because I said so" and other dead-end reasons, sentence 19

Adults usually know more, so listening to them is sensible, but a fact is checked by looking, not by asking who is oldest.

Who acts: Adults, listening · What happens: know, listen, be, check, look, not ask · To what, where: more, thinking, fact · 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 (Adults, listening), 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	Adults	adult	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 know	nsubj
2	usually	usually	ADV	_	3 know	advmod
3	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 sensible	parataxis
4	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 know	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 sensible	punct
6	so	so	ADV	_	11 sensible	advmod
7	listening	listen	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 sensible	csubj
8	to	to	ADP	_	9 them	case
9	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 listening	obl
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 sensible	cop
11	sensible	sensible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 checked	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	17 checked	cc
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 fact	det
15	fact	fact	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 checked	nsubj:pass
16	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 checked	aux:pass
17	checked	check	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 sensible	conj
18	by	by	SCONJ	_	19 looking	mark
19	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 checked	advcl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 asking	punct
21	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	23 asking	advmod
22	by	by	SCONJ	_	23 asking	mark
23	asking	ask	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	19 looking	conj
24	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 oldest	nsubj
25	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 oldest	cop
26	oldest	old	ADJ	Degree=Sup	23 asking	ccomp
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 know	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	know	present	Adults	more		usually property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer more=Stimulus
2	listen	gerund			thinking		vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to they=Theme
3	is	present	listening			sensible property	tree rules
4	check	present · passive		a fact			vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
5	look	gerund					vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
6	not ask speech: ask	gerund					vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	is	present				old 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:19.

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): R6-punct-agree ×1, 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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