"Because I said so" and other dead-end reasons, sentence 2
"Because I'm your mother." That answers "who decides", not "why".
Who acts: I, That · What happens: be, answer, decide · To what, where: mother · 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 (I, That), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 mother | punct |
| 2 | Because | because | SCONJ | _ | 6 mother | mark |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 mother | nsubj |
| 4 | 'm | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 mother | cop |
| 5 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 mother | nmod:poss |
| 6 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 answers | advcl |
| 7 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 mother | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 mother | punct |
| 9 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 answers | nsubj |
| 10 | answers | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 decides | punct |
| 12 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 decides | nsubj |
| 13 | decides | decide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 answers | obj |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 decides | punct |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 why | punct |
| 16 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 18 why | advmod |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 why | punct |
| 18 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 13 decides | conj |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 why | punct |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 answers | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed voice=narrator
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | I | your mother | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | answer speech: assert | present | That | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | decide in a quote | present | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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:2.
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 ×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.
See the release 0.4.
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