The brother who never does anything wrong: double standards at home, sentence 11
Special pleading means making an exception to a rule for yourself or a favourite without a real reason.
Who acts: Special pleading · What happens: mean, make · To what, where: exception · 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 (Special pleading), 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 | Special | special | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 pleading | amod |
| 2 | pleading | pleading | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 means | nsubj |
| 3 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | making | make | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 means | ccomp |
| 5 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 exception | det |
| 6 | exception | exception | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 making | obj |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 rule | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 rule | det |
| 9 | rule | rule | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 exception | nmod |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 yourself | case |
| 11 | yourself | yourself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 9 rule | nmod |
| 12 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 14 favourite | cc |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 favourite | det |
| 14 | favourite | favourite | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 yourself | conj |
| 15 | without | without | ADP | _ | 18 reason | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 reason | det |
| 17 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 reason | amod |
| 18 | reason | reason | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 making | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 means | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | Special pleading | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | make | gerund | a exception | to a rule for yourself; without a real reason | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset exception=Product |
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.
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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, 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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