The football argument that goes in circles, sentence 20

Big clubs often have more fans because they come from big cities or won a lot long ago; who is better this season shows in the league table.

Who acts: Big clubs, clubs · What happens: have, come, win, be, show · To what, where: more fans, big cities, lot, league table · 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 (Big clubs, clubs), 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	Big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 clubs	amod
2	clubs	club	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 have	nsubj
3	often	often	ADV	_	4 have	advmod
4	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	6 fans	amod
6	fans	fan	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 have	obj
7	because	because	SCONJ	_	9 come	mark
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 come	nsubj
9	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 have	advcl
10	from	from	ADP	_	12 cities	case
11	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 cities	amod
12	cities	city	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 come	obl
13	or	or	CCONJ	_	14 won	cc
14	won	win	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 come	conj
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 lot	det
16	lot	lot	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 won	obl:unmarked
17	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	18 ago	advmod
18	ago	ago	ADV	_	14 won	advmod
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 better	punct
20	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 better	nsubj
21	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 better	cop
22	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	25 shows	csubj
23	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	24 season	det
24	season	season	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 better	obl:unmarked
25	shows	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 have	conj
26	in	in	ADP	_	29 table	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 table	det
28	league	league	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 table	compound
29	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 shows	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 have	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	Big clubs	more fans			often property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fan=Patient
2	come	present	clubs = club		big cities			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from city=Initial_Location
3	win	past	clubs = club not said here	a lot			ago property	vn succeed-74-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	is	present				season	good property	tree rules
5	show	present	Big clubs not said here		the league table			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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:20.

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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