The brother who never does anything wrong: double standards at home, sentence 14

Calling every example that breaks your rule "an exception" is a trap; grown-ups call it "no true Scotsman".

Who acts: example, exception, grown ups, your · What happens: call, break, be, grow, rule · To what, where: example, rule, trap · 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 (example, exception, grown ups, 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	Calling	call	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	14 trap	csubj
2	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	3 example	det
3	example	example	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Calling	obj
4	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 breaks	nsubj
5	breaks	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 example	acl:relcl
6	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 rule	nmod:poss
7	rule	rule	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 breaks	obj
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 exception	punct
9	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 exception	det
10	exception	exception	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 trap	nsubj
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 exception	punct
12	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 trap	cop
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 trap	det
14	trap	trap	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 grown	punct
16	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 ups	amod
17	-	-	PUNCT	_	18 ups	punct
18	ups	up	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 call	nsubj
19	call	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 trap	parataxis
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 call	obj
21	"	"	PUNCT	_	24 Scotsman	punct
22	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	24 Scotsman	det
23	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 Scotsman	amod
24	Scotsman	Scotsman	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 call	xcomp
25	"	"	PUNCT	_	24 Scotsman	punct
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 trap	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	call	gerund		every example	vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent example=Recipient
2	break	present	every example	your rule	vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer rule=Patient
3	is a	present	a exception	a trap	tree rules
4	grow	participle			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	call	present	grown ups	rule	vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Recipient
6	rule		your		nom rule «cognition intransitive»: 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:14.

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, 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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