The football argument that goes in circles, sentence 0

Two boys argue: "Messi's better because he's the best." "No, Ronaldo's better because he's the greatest." For fifteen minutes.

Who acts: Two boys, Messi, Ronaldo · What happens: argue, be · To what, where: Messi, Ronaldo · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «The football argument that goes in circles» 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 (Two boys, Messi, Ronaldo), 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	Two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 boys	nummod
2	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 argue	nsubj
3	argue	argue	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	:	:	PUNCT	_	8 better	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 better	punct
6	Messi	Messi	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 better	nsubj
7	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 Messi	cop
8	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 argue	ccomp
9	because	because	SCONJ	_	13 best	mark
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 best	nsubj
11	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 best	cop
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 best	det
13	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	8 better	advcl
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 argue	punct
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 argue	punct
16	"	"	PUNCT	_	21 better	punct
17	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	21 better	discourse
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 No	punct
19	Ronaldo	Ronaldo	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 better	nsubj
20	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 Ronaldo	cop
21	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 argue	conj
22	because	because	SCONJ	_	26 greatest	mark
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 greatest	nsubj
24	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 greatest	cop
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 greatest	det
26	greatest	great	ADJ	Degree=Sup	21 better	advcl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 argue	punct
28	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 argue	punct
29	For	for	ADP	_	31 minutes	case
30	fifteen	fifteen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	31 minutes	nummod
31	minutes	minute	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 argue	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 argue	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	argue speech: disagree	present	Two boys		minute		vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is a in a quote	present		Messi			tree rules
3	is in a quote	present	Messi			good property	tree rules
4	is a in a quote	present		Ronaldo			tree rules
5	is in a quote	present	Ronaldo			great property	tree rules

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:170-the-football-argument-that-goes-in-circles.lesson:0.

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, R8-pos-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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