Bets, dares and silly reasons, sentence 17
A bet needs both people to agree; nobody owes anything for a deal they never accepted.
Who acts: bet, people, nobody · What happens: need, agree, owe, not accept · To what, where: people, anything, deal
This is a sentence of the lesson «Bets, dares and silly reasons» 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 (bet, people, nobody), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 bet | det |
| 2 | bet | bet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 needs | nsubj |
| 3 | needs | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 people | det:predet |
| 5 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 needs | obj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 agree | mark |
| 7 | agree | agree | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 needs | xcomp |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 owes | punct |
| 9 | nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 10 owes | nsubj |
| 10 | owes | owe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 needs | parataxis |
| 11 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 10 owes | obj |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 deal | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 deal | det |
| 14 | deal | deal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 owes | obl |
| 15 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 accepted | nsubj |
| 16 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 17 accepted | advmod |
| 17 | accepted | accept | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 deal | acl:relcl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 needs | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | need | present | a bet | both people | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | agree speech: agree not said to happen | to-infinitive | both people not said here | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | owe | present | nobody | anything | for a deal goal | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent anything=Theme for deal=Goal | |||
| 4 | not accept | past | people | a deal not said here | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent deal=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:169-bets-dares-and-silly-reasons.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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, 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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