The football argument that goes in circles, sentence 21
Claims nobody can check, like "my dad's got a hundred black belts", are not real arguments.
Who acts: nobody, dad, Claims · What happens: check, get, not be · To what, where: hundred black belts, real arguments
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 (nobody, dad, Claims), 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 | Claims | claim | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 arguments | nsubj |
| 2 | nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 4 check | nsubj |
| 3 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 check | aux |
| 4 | check | check | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Claims | ccomp |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Claims | punct |
| 6 | like | like | SCONJ | _ | 11 got | mark |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 got | punct |
| 8 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 dad | nmod:poss |
| 9 | dad | dad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 got | nsubj |
| 10 | 's | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 dad | aux |
| 11 | got | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 1 Claims | advcl |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 hundred | det |
| 13 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 belts | nummod |
| 14 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 belts | amod |
| 15 | belts | belt | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 got | obj |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 got | punct |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 arguments | punct |
| 18 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 arguments | cop |
| 19 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 21 arguments | advmod |
| 20 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 arguments | amod |
| 21 | arguments | argument | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Claims | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | check | can | nobody | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | get in a quote | participle | my dad | hundred black belts | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer belt=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | not is a | present | Claims | real arguments | 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:21.
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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×3, 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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