"Because I said so" and other dead-end reasons, sentence 6

Some dead ends lean on age or habit: "I'm the adult, so I'd know", "back in my day we didn't ask".

Who acts: dead ends, answer, we · What happens: lean, be, know, not ask · To what, where: age, adult · 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 (dead ends, answer, we), 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	Some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	3 ends	det
2	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 ends	amod
3	ends	end	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 lean	nsubj
4	lean	lean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	on	on	ADP	_	6 age	case
6	age	age	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lean	obl
7	or	or	CCONJ	_	8 habit	cc
8	habit	habit	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 age	conj
9	:	:	PUNCT	_	14 adult	punct
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 adult	punct
11	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 adult	nsubj
12	'm	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 adult	cop
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 adult	det
14	adult	adult	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lean	parataxis
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 know	punct
16	so	so	ADV	_	19 know	advmod
17	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 know	nsubj
18	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 know	aux
19	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 adult	parataxis
20	"	"	PUNCT	_	19 know	punct
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 know	punct
22	"	"	PUNCT	_	30 ask	punct
23	back	back	ADV	_	26 day	advmod
24	in	in	ADP	_	26 day	case
25	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 day	nmod:poss
26	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 ask	obl
27	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	30 ask	nsubj
28	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 ask	aux
29	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	30 ask	advmod
30	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 adult	conj
31	"	"	PUNCT	_	30 ask	punct
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 lean	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	lean	present	some dead ends		on age or habit	tree rules
2	is a in a quote	present	the answer = answer	the adult		tree rules
3	know in a quote	would	the answer = answer			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	not ask speech: ask in a quote	past · do-support	we		day	vn inquire-37.1.2 «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:6.

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, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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