The whole class punished, and "you didn't say no", sentence 21
Changing the target each time someone meets it is moving the goalposts; fair rules are clear before the race starts.
Who acts: someone, Changing, fair rules, race · What happens: change, meet, move, be, start · To what, where: target, threat, goalposts
This is a sentence of the lesson «The whole class punished, and "you didn't say no"» 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 (someone, Changing, fair rules, race), 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 | Changing | change | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 moving | csubj |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 target | det |
| 3 | target | target | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Changing | obj |
| 4 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 time | det |
| 5 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 moving | obl:unmarked |
| 6 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 7 meets | nsubj |
| 7 | meets | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 time | acl:relcl |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 meets | obj |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 moving | aux |
| 10 | moving | move | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 goalposts | det |
| 12 | goalposts | goalpost | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 moving | obj |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 moving | punct |
| 14 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 rules | amod |
| 15 | rules | rule | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 clear | nsubj |
| 16 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 clear | cop |
| 17 | clear | clear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 moving | parataxis |
| 18 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 21 starts | mark |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 race | det |
| 20 | race | race | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 starts | nsubj |
| 21 | starts | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 clear | advcl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 moving | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | change | gerund | the target | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent target=Patient | |||||
| 2 | meet | present | someone | threat | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Co-Agent | ||||
| 3 | move | present · progressive | Changing | the goalposts | time | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent goalpost=Theme | |||
| 4 | is | present | fair rules | clear property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | start | present | the race | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
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:168-the-whole-class-punished-and-you-didnt-say-no.lesson:21.
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. 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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