The football argument that goes in circles, sentence 23
Changing what a word means so that you win is a trap called "no true Scotsman"; arguing about a word nobody has defined is a verbal dispute.
Who acts: word, you, Changing, nobody, arguing · What happens: change, mean, win, be, call, argue · To what, where: trap, word, verbal dispute · 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 (word, you, Changing, 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 | Changing | change | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 trap | csubj |
| 2 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 means | obj |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 word | det |
| 4 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 means | nsubj |
| 5 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Changing | ccomp |
| 6 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 9 win | mark |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 6 so | fixed |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 win | nsubj |
| 9 | win | win | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Changing | advcl |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 trap | cop |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 trap | det |
| 12 | trap | trap | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 13 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 trap | acl |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 Scotsman | punct |
| 15 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 17 Scotsman | det |
| 16 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 Scotsman | amod |
| 17 | Scotsman | Scotsman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 called | xcomp |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 Scotsman | punct |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 30 dispute | punct |
| 20 | arguing | argue | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 30 dispute | csubj |
| 21 | about | about | ADP | _ | 24 nobody | case |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 word | det |
| 23 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 arguing | obl |
| 24 | nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 26 defined | nsubj |
| 25 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 defined | aux |
| 26 | defined | define | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 23 word | acl:relcl |
| 27 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 dispute | cop |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 dispute | det |
| 29 | verbal | verbal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 dispute | amod |
| 30 | dispute | dispute | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 trap | parataxis |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 trap | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed voice=narrator
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | change | gerund | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | mean | present | a word | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic | |||||
| 3 | win | present | you | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is a | present | Changing | a trap | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | call | participle | a trap not said here | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | argue speech: disagree | gerund | a word | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 7 | define | present · perfect | nobody | a word not said here | vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Theme | ||||
| 8 | is a | present | arguing | a verbal dispute | 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:23.
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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, 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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