"Because I said so" and other dead-end reasons, sentence 4
Other dead ends sound like reasons but go nowhere: "Phones are bad because they're bad" just says the answer twice.
Who acts: Other dead ends, Phones, answer · What happens: sound, go, be, say · 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 (Other dead ends, Phones, answer), 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 | Other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 ends | amod |
| 2 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 ends | amod |
| 3 | ends | end | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 sound | nsubj |
| 4 | sound | sound | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | like | like | ADP | _ | 6 reasons | case |
| 6 | reasons | reason | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 sound | obl |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 8 go | cc |
| 8 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 sound | conj |
| 9 | nowhere | nowhere | ADV | PronType=Neg | 8 go | advmod |
| 10 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 14 bad | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 bad | punct |
| 12 | Phones | phone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 bad | nsubj |
| 13 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 bad | cop |
| 14 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 go | conj |
| 15 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 18 bad | mark |
| 16 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 bad | nsubj |
| 17 | 're | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 bad | cop |
| 18 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 says | advcl |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 bad | punct |
| 20 | just | just | ADV | _ | 21 says | advmod |
| 21 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 bad | parataxis |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 answer | det |
| 23 | answer | answer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 says | obj |
| 24 | twice | twice | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 21 says | advmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 sound | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- character
- polarity
- neg
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sound | present | Other dead ends | like reasons | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | go | present | Other dead ends not said here | nowhere property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | Phones | bad property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | is in a quote | present | Phones = phone | bad property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | say speech: assert | present | the answer | twice property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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:4.
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. 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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