The brother who never does anything wrong: double standards at home, sentence 1

Mum: "He must have done it on a different sheet." The evidence says one thing, and Mum invents an excuse so her belief can stay.

Who acts: He, evidence, Mum, belief · What happens: do, say, invent, stay, believe · To what, where: it, different sheet, one thing, excuse · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «The brother who never does anything wrong: double standards at home» 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 (He, evidence, Mum, belief), 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	Mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	7 done	punct
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 done	punct
4	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 done	nsubj
5	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 done	aux
6	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 done	aux
7	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	1 Mum	appos
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 done	obj
9	on	on	ADP	_	12 sheet	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 sheet	det
11	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 sheet	amod
12	sheet	sheet	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 done	obl
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 done	punct
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	17 says	punct
15	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 evidence	det
16	evidence	evidence	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 says	nsubj
17	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 done	conj
18	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	19 thing	nummod
19	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 says	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 invents	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 invents	cc
22	Mum	Mum	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 invents	nsubj
23	invents	invent	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 says	conj
24	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 excuse	det
25	excuse	excuse	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 invents	obj
26	so	so	SCONJ	_	30 stay	mark
27	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 belief	nmod:poss
28	belief	belief	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 stay	nsubj
29	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 stay	aux
30	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 invents	advcl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 says	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	do in a quote	must · perfect	He	it	a different sheet	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality
2	say speech: assert	present	the evidence	one thing		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent thing=Topic
3	invent	present	Mum	a excuse		vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent excuse=Result
4	stay	can	Mum's belief			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	believe		Mum			nom belief «cognition transitive»: poss=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:165-the-brother-who-never-does-anything-wrong-double-standards.lesson:1.

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): R2-punct-next ×1, R6-punct-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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