The football argument that goes in circles, sentence 14
Throwing out the results that go against you, or inventing a rule after you lose, is moving the goalposts.
Who acts: results, you, Throwing · What happens: throw out, go, invent, lose, move · To what, where: results, rule, goalposts
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 (results, you, Throwing), 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 | Throwing | throw | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 19 moving | csubj |
| 2 | out | out | ADP | _ | 1 Throwing | compound:prt |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 results | det |
| 4 | results | result | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Throwing | obj |
| 5 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 go | nsubj |
| 6 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 results | acl:relcl |
| 7 | against | against | ADP | _ | 8 you | case |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 go | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 inventing | punct |
| 10 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 11 inventing | cc |
| 11 | inventing | invent | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 1 Throwing | conj |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 rule | det |
| 13 | rule | rule | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 inventing | obj |
| 14 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 16 lose | mark |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 lose | nsubj |
| 16 | lose | lose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 inventing | advcl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 lose | punct |
| 18 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 moving | aux |
| 19 | moving | move | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 goalposts | det |
| 21 | goalposts | goalpost | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 moving | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 moving | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- neg
- teacher
- changed act=assert, polarity=neg
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | throw out | gerund | the results | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent result=Theme | |||||
| 2 | go | present | the results | against you | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme against you=Location | ||||
| 3 | invent | gerund | a rule | vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rule=Result | |||||
| 4 | lose | present | you | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | move | present · progressive | Throwing | the goalposts | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent goalpost=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:170-the-football-argument-that-goes-in-circles.lesson:14.
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): no change. 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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