The football argument that goes in circles, sentence 16

Saying something louder does not make it truer; if nobody saw clearly, agree a fair way to settle it, like a replay or a coin toss.

Who acts: Saying, nobody · What happens: say, not make, see, agree, settle · To what, where: something, count, fair way · 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 (Saying, 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	Saying	say	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 make	csubj
2	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	1 Saying	obj
3	louder	loud	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 something	amod
4	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 make	aux
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 make	advmod
6	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 make	obj
8	truer	true	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	6 make	xcomp
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 saw	punct
10	if	if	SCONJ	_	12 saw	mark
11	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	12 saw	nsubj
12	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 agree	advcl
13	clearly	clearly	ADV	_	12 saw	advmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 agree	punct
15	agree	agree	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 make	parataxis
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 way	det
17	fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 way	amod
18	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 agree	obj
19	to	to	PART	_	20 settle	mark
20	settle	settle	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 way	acl
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 settle	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 replay	punct
23	like	like	ADP	_	25 replay	case
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 replay	det
25	replay	replay	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 agree	obl
26	or	or	CCONJ	_	29 toss	cc
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 toss	det
28	coin	coin	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 toss	compound
29	toss	toss	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 replay	conj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 make	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	gerund		something		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent something=Topic
2	not make	present · do-support	Saying	count	true property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product
3	see a condition, not said to happen	past	nobody		clearly property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	agree speech: agree	infinitive		a fair way	like a replay or a coin toss	vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent way=Topic
5	settle	to-infinitive		count		vn odge-46-1 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme it=Location

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:16.

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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