The brother who never does anything wrong: double standards at home, sentence 16

Age can be a fair reason to be gentle, but then it must be fair for every child at that age.

Who acts: Age · What happens: be · To what, where: fair reason, age

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 (Age), 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	Age	age	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 reason	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 reason	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 reason	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 reason	det
5	fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 reason	amod
6	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	9 gentle	mark
8	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 gentle	cop
9	gentle	gentle	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 reason	acl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 fair	punct
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 fair	cc
12	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	16 fair	advmod
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 fair	nsubj
14	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 fair	aux
15	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	16 fair	cop
16	fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 reason	conj
17	for	for	ADP	_	19 child	case
18	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	19 child	det
19	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 fair	obl
20	at	at	ADP	_	22 age	case
21	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	22 age	det
22	age	age	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 fair	obl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 reason	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is a	can	Age	a fair reason			tree rules
2	is	to-infinitive				gentle property	tree rules
3	is	must	age		at that age; then	for every child; fair property	tree rules

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:16.

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): no change. 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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