"Because I said so" and other dead-end reasons, sentence 21
Hair dye that washes out lasts a few weeks; a parent may still say no, but should give a real reason, such as school rules.
Who acts: Hair dye, parent · What happens: wash out, last, say, give · To what, where: real reason · 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 (Hair dye, parent), 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 | Hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 dye | compound |
| 2 | dye | dye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 lasts | nsubj |
| 3 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 washes | nsubj |
| 4 | washes | wash | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 dye | acl:relcl |
| 5 | out | out | ADP | _ | 4 washes | compound:prt |
| 6 | lasts | last | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 weeks | det |
| 8 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 weeks | amod |
| 9 | weeks | week | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 lasts | obl:unmarked |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 say | punct |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 parent | det |
| 12 | parent | parent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 say | nsubj |
| 13 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 say | aux |
| 14 | still | still | ADV | _ | 15 say | advmod |
| 15 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 lasts | parataxis |
| 16 | no | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 15 say | discourse |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 give | punct |
| 18 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 20 give | cc |
| 19 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 give | aux |
| 20 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 say | conj |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 reason | det |
| 22 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 reason | amod |
| 23 | reason | reason | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 give | obj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 rules | punct |
| 25 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP | 28 rules | case |
| 26 | as | as | ADP | _ | 25 such | fixed |
| 27 | school | school | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 rules | compound |
| 28 | rules | rule | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 reason | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 lasts | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wash out | present | Hair dye | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | last | present | Hair dye | week | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | may | a parent | still | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | give | should | a parent not said here | a real reason | such school rules | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reason=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:21.
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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