The football argument that goes in circles, sentence 19
Check a fact before you argue with it: one false "fact" makes the whole argument wobble.
Who acts: you, one false fact · What happens: check, argue, make · To what, where: fact, whole argument wobble
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 (you, one false fact), 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 | Check | check | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 fact | det |
| 3 | fact | fact | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Check | obj |
| 4 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 6 argue | mark |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 argue | nsubj |
| 6 | argue | argue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Check | advcl |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 it | case |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 argue | obl |
| 9 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 10 one | punct |
| 10 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 fact | nummod |
| 11 | false | false | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 fact | amod |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 fact | punct |
| 13 | fact | fact | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 makes | nsubj |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 fact | punct |
| 15 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Check | parataxis |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 wobble | det |
| 17 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 wobble | amod |
| 18 | argument | argument | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 wobble | compound |
| 19 | wobble | wobble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 makes | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Check | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | check | imperative | you not said here | a fact | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fact=Theme | ||||
| 2 | argue speech: disagree | present | you | with fact | vn chit_chat-37.6-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with it=Co-Agent | ||||
| 3 | make | present | one false fact | the whole argument wobble | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset wobble=Product |
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:19.
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 ×2. 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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