The brother who never does anything wrong: double standards at home, sentence 13
Inventing a new excuse whenever the evidence goes against your belief is called moving the goalposts.
Who acts: evidence, Inventing, your · What happens: invent, go, call, move, believe · To what, where: new excuse, belief, goalposts · 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 (evidence, Inventing, your), 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 | Inventing | invent | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 called | csubj:pass |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 excuse | det |
| 3 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 excuse | amod |
| 4 | excuse | excuse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Inventing | obj |
| 5 | whenever | whenever | SCONJ | _ | 8 goes | mark |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 evidence | det |
| 7 | evidence | evidence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 goes | nsubj |
| 8 | goes | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Inventing | advcl |
| 9 | against | against | ADP | _ | 11 belief | case |
| 10 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 belief | nmod:poss |
| 11 | belief | belief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 goes | obl |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 called | aux:pass |
| 13 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 14 | moving | move | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 called | xcomp |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 goalposts | det |
| 16 | goalposts | goalpost | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 moving | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 called | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=assert
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | invent | gerund | a new excuse | vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent excuse=Result | |||||
| 2 | go | present | the evidence | your belief | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme against belief=Location | ||||
| 3 | call speech: assert | present · passive | Inventing | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | move | gerund | Inventing not said here | the goalposts | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent goalpost=Theme | ||||
| 5 | believe | your | 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:13.
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 ×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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