"Because I said so" and other dead-end reasons, sentence 9

But there usually is a real reason, and saying it helps: children of 9 or 10 need about 9 to 11 hours of sleep to grow and learn, and vegetables give fibre and vitamins.

Who acts: real reason, reason, children, vegetables · What happens: be, say, help, need, grow, learn · To what, where: fibre · 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 (real reason, reason, children, vegetables), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	4 is	cc
2	there	there	PRON	_	4 is	expl
3	usually	usually	ADV	_	4 is	advmod
4	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 reason	det
6	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 reason	amod
7	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 is	nsubj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 saying	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 saying	cc
10	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 reason	conj
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 helps	nsubj
12	helps	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 saying	ccomp
13	:	:	PUNCT	_	14 children	punct
14	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 need	nsubj
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 9	case
16	9	9	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	14 children	nmod
17	or	or	CCONJ	_	18 10	cc
18	10	10	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	16 9	conj
19	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 is	parataxis
20	about	about	ADV	_	21 9	advmod
21	9	9	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	24 hours	nummod
22	to	to	ADP	_	23 11	case
23	11	11	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	24 hours	nummod
24	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 need	obj
25	of	of	ADP	_	26 sleep	case
26	sleep	sleep	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 hours	nmod
27	to	to	PART	_	28 grow	mark
28	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 need	advcl
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 learn	cc
30	learn	learn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 grow	conj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 give	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 give	cc
33	vegetables	vegetable	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 give	nsubj
34	give	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 need	conj
35	fibre	fibre	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 give	obj
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 vitamins	cc
37	vitamins	vitamin	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 fibre	conj
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 is	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	present	a real reason		there		usually property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	say speech: assert	gerund	a real reason not said here					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	help	present	reason					vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
4	need	present	children of 9			hour		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
5	grow	to-infinitive	children of 9 not said here					vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	learn	infinitive	children of 9 not said here					vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	give	present	vegetables	fibre and vitamins				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fibre=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:9.

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 ×3, R7-rel-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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