The brother who never does anything wrong: double standards at home, sentence 4

Special pleading is a rule for everyone except me: "No phones at the table," says Dad, then checks his own: "That's different, it's work." Or: "Sugar is bad," says Dad, eating a doughnut, "but grown-ups need energy."

Who acts: Special pleading, phones, That, pleading, Sugar, Dad · What happens: be, say, check, eat, grow, need · To what, where: rule, own, work, doughnut, energy · 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, phones, That, 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	5 rule	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 rule	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 rule	det
5	rule	rule	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	for	for	ADP	_	7 everyone	case
7	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	5 rule	nmod
8	except	except	ADP	_	9 me	case
9	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 everyone	nmod
10	:	:	PUNCT	_	13 phones	punct
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 phones	punct
12	No	no	DET	PronType=Neg	13 phones	det
13	phones	phone	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 says	nsubj
14	at	at	ADP	_	16 table	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 table	det
16	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 phones	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 phones	punct
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 phones	punct
19	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 rule	parataxis
20	Dad	Dad	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 says	nsubj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 checks	punct
22	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	23 checks	advmod
23	checks	check	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 says	conj
24	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 own	nmod:poss
25	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 checks	obj
26	:	:	PUNCT	_	30 different	punct
27	"	"	PUNCT	_	30 different	punct
28	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	30 different	nsubj
29	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 different	cop
30	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 checks	parataxis
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 work	punct
32	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 work	nsubj
33	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	34 work	cop
34	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 different	parataxis
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	34 work	punct
36	"	"	PUNCT	_	34 work	punct
37	Or	or	CCONJ	_	45 says	cc
38	:	:	PUNCT	_	42 bad	punct
39	"	"	PUNCT	_	42 bad	punct
40	Sugar	sugar	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 bad	nsubj
41	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	42 bad	cop
42	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 says	ccomp
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 bad	punct
44	"	"	PUNCT	_	42 bad	punct
45	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	34 work	conj
46	Dad	Dad	PROPN	Number=Sing	45 says	nsubj
47	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 Dad	punct
48	eating	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	45 says	advcl
49	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	50 doughnut	det
50	doughnut	doughnut	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 eating	obj
51	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 eating	punct
52	"	"	PUNCT	_	34 work	punct
53	but	but	CCONJ	_	57 need	cc
54	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	56 ups	amod
55	-	-	PUNCT	_	30 different	punct
56	ups	up	NOUN	Number=Plur	57 need	nsubj
57	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	42 bad	conj
58	energy	energy	NOUN	Number=Sing	57 need	obj
59	.	.	PUNCT	_	19 says	punct
60	"	"	PUNCT	_	19 says	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Special pleading	a rule		for everyone	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	present	no phones at the table				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	check	present	no phones at the table not said here	Dad's own	then		tree rules
4	is in a quote	present	That			different property	tree rules
5	is a in a quote	present	pleading	work			tree rules
6	is in a quote	present	Sugar			bad property	tree rules
7	say speech: assert	present	Dad				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
8	eat	gerund	Dad not said here	a doughnut			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent doughnut=Patient
9	grow in a quote	participle					vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
10	need in a quote	present	grown ups	energy			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot energy=Theme

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:4.

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 ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2. 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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