The brother who never does anything wrong: double standards at home, sentence 17
If a rule has a good reason, like talking together at dinner, it applies to everyone; a real exception, like an emergency, should be said in advance for everyone.
Who acts: rule, good reason · What happens: have, talk, apply, say · To what, where: good reason, dinner, real exception, advance · 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 (rule, good reason), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 4 has | mark |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 rule | det |
| 3 | rule | rule | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 has | nsubj |
| 4 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 applies | advcl |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 reason | det |
| 6 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 reason | amod |
| 7 | reason | reason | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 has | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 talking | punct |
| 9 | like | like | SCONJ | _ | 10 talking | mark |
| 10 | talking | talk | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 reason | acl |
| 11 | together | together | ADV | _ | 10 talking | advmod |
| 12 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 dinner | case |
| 13 | dinner | dinner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 talking | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 has | punct |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 applies | nsubj |
| 16 | applies | apply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 everyone | case |
| 18 | everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 16 applies | obl |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 exception | punct |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 exception | det |
| 21 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 exception | amod |
| 22 | exception | exception | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 said | nsubj:pass |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 emergency | punct |
| 24 | like | like | ADP | _ | 26 emergency | case |
| 25 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 emergency | det |
| 26 | emergency | emergency | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 exception | nmod |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 said | punct |
| 28 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 30 said | aux |
| 29 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 30 said | aux:pass |
| 30 | said | say | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 applies | parataxis |
| 31 | in | in | ADP | _ | 32 advance | case |
| 32 | advance | advance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 said | obl |
| 33 | for | for | ADP | _ | 34 everyone | case |
| 34 | everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 30 said | obl |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 applies | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have a condition, not said to happen | present | a rule | a good reason | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reason=Patient | ||||
| 2 | talk | gerund | a good reason not said here | dinner | together property | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 3 | apply | present | rule | to everyone | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | should · passive | a real exception like a emergency | advance | for everyone | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: subject=Theme in advance=Manner |
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:17.
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 ×2, R7-rel-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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