Bets, dares and silly reasons, sentence 2
Bets and dares are full of silly reasons: a dream as proof ("I did it in my dream"), a calendar as a weather forecast (snow because it's Christmas), new trainers as superpowers, a big brother as the expert.
Who acts: Bets, cousin, bet, my · What happens: be, do, dream · To what, where: bet, dream, Christmas · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Bets, cousin, bet, my), 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 | Bets | bet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 full | nsubj |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 dares | cc |
| 3 | dares | dare | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Bets | conj |
| 4 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 full | cop |
| 5 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 reasons | case |
| 7 | silly | silly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 reasons | amod |
| 8 | reasons | reason | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 full | obl |
| 9 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 11 dream | punct |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 dream | det |
| 11 | dream | dream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 reasons | nmod |
| 12 | as | as | ADP | _ | 13 proof | case |
| 13 | proof | proof | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 dream | nmod |
| 14 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 17 did | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 did | punct |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 did | nsubj |
| 17 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 full | parataxis |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 did | obj |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 dream | case |
| 20 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 dream | nmod:poss |
| 21 | dream | dream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 did | obl |
| 22 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 dream | punct |
| 23 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 21 dream | punct |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 calendar | punct |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 calendar | det |
| 26 | calendar | calendar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 dream | conj |
| 27 | as | as | ADP | _ | 30 forecast | case |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 forecast | det |
| 29 | weather | weather | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 forecast | compound |
| 30 | forecast | forecast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 calendar | nmod |
| 31 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 32 snow | punct |
| 32 | snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 forecast | appos |
| 33 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 36 Christmas | mark |
| 34 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 Christmas | nsubj |
| 35 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 36 Christmas | cop |
| 36 | Christmas | Christmas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 did | advcl |
| 37 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 36 Christmas | punct |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 trainers | punct |
| 39 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 trainers | amod |
| 40 | trainers | trainer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 dream | conj |
| 41 | as | as | ADP | _ | 42 superpowers | case |
| 42 | superpowers | superpower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 40 trainers | nmod |
| 43 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 46 brother | punct |
| 44 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 46 brother | det |
| 45 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 46 brother | amod |
| 46 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 Christmas | conj |
| 47 | as | as | ADP | _ | 49 expert | case |
| 48 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 49 expert | det |
| 49 | expert | expert | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 brother | nmod |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 full | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Bets and dares | of silly reasons a dream as proof and a calendar as a weather forecast and new trainers as superpowers; full property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | do in a quote | past | Charlie's cousin = cousin | bet | my dream | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality | |||
| 3 | is a | present | bet | Christmas and a big brother as the expert | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | dream in a quote | my | nom dream «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
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:2.
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 ×4, 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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