"Because I said so" and other dead-end reasons, sentence 23

Words people use: "back in my day" is how older people start a story about the past (Gen X and boomers), "love that for me" is sarcastic for "how useless", "bro got scammed" means he was tricked, "boy" is a Texan grandpa's word for a lad, and "cold-mum" is a family joke word for mums who always feel cold.

Who acts: people, older people, Gen X, boy, cold mum, mums · What happens: use, be, scam, mean, trick, feel · To what, where: Words, bro, dye, word, joke word · 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 (people, older people, Gen X, boy), 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	Words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 use	obj
2	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 use	nsubj
3	use	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 start	advcl
4	:	:	PUNCT	_	9 day	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 back	punct
6	back	back	ADV	_	9 day	advmod
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 day	case
8	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 day	nmod:poss
9	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 use	obl:unmarked
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 day	punct
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 start	cop
12	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	15 start	advmod
13	older	old	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	14 people	amod
14	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 start	nsubj
15	start	start	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	47 means	advcl
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 story	det
17	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 start	obj
18	about	about	ADP	_	20 past	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 past	det
20	past	past	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 story	nmod
21	(	(	PUNCT	_	23 X	punct
22	Gen	Gen	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 X	compound
23	X	X	PROPN	Number=Sing	47 means	nsubj
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 boomers	cc
25	boomers	boomer	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 X	conj
26	)	)	PUNCT	_	23 X	punct
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 love	punct
28	"	"	PUNCT	_	29 love	punct
29	love	love	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 X	appos
30	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	45 scammed	obj
31	for	for	ADP	_	32 me	case
32	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	30 that	obl
33	"	"	PUNCT	_	35 sarcastic	punct
34	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	35 sarcastic	cop
35	sarcastic	sarcastic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 that	conj
36	for	for	ADP	_	39 useless	case
37	"	"	PUNCT	_	39 useless	punct
38	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	39 useless	advmod
39	useless	useless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 sarcastic	obl
40	"	"	PUNCT	_	39 useless	punct
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 that	punct
42	"	"	PUNCT	_	45 scammed	punct
43	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 scammed	nsubj:pass
44	got	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	45 scammed	aux:pass
45	scammed	scam	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	29 love	acl:relcl
46	"	"	PUNCT	_	45 scammed	punct
47	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
48	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	50 tricked	nsubj:pass
49	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	50 tricked	aux:pass
50	tricked	trick	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	47 means	ccomp
51	,	,	PUNCT	_	60 word	punct
52	"	"	PUNCT	_	60 word	punct
53	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	60 word	nsubj
54	"	"	PUNCT	_	53 boy	punct
55	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	60 word	cop
56	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	58 grandpa	det
57	Texan	texan	ADJ	Degree=Pos	58 grandpa	amod
58	grandpa	grandpa	NOUN	Number=Sing	60 word	nmod:poss
59	's	's	PART	_	58 grandpa	case
60	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 tricked	parataxis
61	for	for	ADP	_	63 lad	case
62	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	63 lad	det
63	lad	lad	NOUN	Number=Sing	60 word	nmod
64	,	,	PUNCT	_	69 mum	punct
65	and	and	CCONJ	_	69 mum	cc
66	"	"	PUNCT	_	69 mum	punct
67	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	69 mum	amod
68	-	-	PUNCT	_	67 cold	punct
69	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	75 word	nsubj
70	"	"	PUNCT	_	69 mum	punct
71	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	75 word	cop
72	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	75 word	det
73	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	74 joke	compound
74	joke	joke	NOUN	Number=Sing	75 word	compound
75	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	60 word	conj
76	for	for	ADP	_	77 mums	case
77	mums	mum	NOUN	Number=Plur	75 word	nmod
78	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	80 feel	nsubj
79	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	80 feel	advmod
80	feel	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	77 mums	acl:relcl
81	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	80 feel	xcomp
82	.	.	PUNCT	_	47 means	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	use	present	people	Words	day		vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Patient
2	is	present	older people			start property	tree rules
3	is	present				for useless; sarcastic property	tree rules
4	scam in a quote	past · passive		bro			tree rules
5	mean	present	Gen X and boomers				vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	trick	past · passive		dye			vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
7	is a	present	boy	a Texan grandpa's word and a joke word		for a lad	tree rules
8	is a	present	cold mum	a joke word		for mums	tree rules
9	feel	present	mums			always, cold property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

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:23.

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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×3, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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.

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