Bets, dares and silly reasons, sentence 7
Someone else being able to do something does not mean you can; grown-ups call this a false comparison.
Who acts: Someone, ups · What happens: be, do, not mean, grow, call · To what, where: something, this · 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 (Someone, ups), 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 | Someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 4 able | nsubj |
| 2 | else | else | ADV | _ | 1 Someone | advmod |
| 3 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 able | cop |
| 4 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 mean | csubj |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 do | mark |
| 6 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 able | xcomp |
| 7 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 6 do | obj |
| 8 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 mean | aux |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 mean | advmod |
| 10 | mean | mean | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 can | nsubj |
| 12 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 mean | ccomp |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 grown | punct |
| 14 | grown | grow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 mean | parataxis |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 call | punct |
| 16 | ups | up | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 call | nsubj |
| 17 | call | call | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 grown | parataxis |
| 18 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 17 call | obj |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 comparison | det |
| 20 | false | false | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 comparison | amod |
| 21 | comparison | comparison | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 call | xcomp |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 mean | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | gerund | Someone | able property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | do | to-infinitive | Someone not said here | something | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | not mean | present · do-support | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | grow | participle | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 5 | call | infinitive | ups | this | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent this=Recipient |
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:7.
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): 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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