The football argument that goes in circles, sentence 24
Asking "what do we each mean by the word?" often shows that both sides are right in their own way.
Who acts: we, Asking, sides · What happens: ask, mean, show, be · To what, where: own 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 (we, Asking, sides), 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 | Asking | ask | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 shows | csubj |
| 2 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 mean | punct |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 7 mean | obj |
| 4 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 mean | aux |
| 5 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 mean | nsubj |
| 6 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 mean | det |
| 7 | mean | mean | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Asking | ccomp |
| 8 | by | by | ADP | _ | 10 word | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 word | det |
| 10 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 mean | obl |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 mean | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 mean | punct |
| 13 | often | often | ADV | _ | 14 shows | advmod |
| 14 | shows | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 19 right | mark |
| 16 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 17 sides | det |
| 17 | sides | side | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 right | nsubj |
| 18 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 right | cop |
| 19 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 shows | ccomp |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 way | case |
| 21 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 way | nmod:poss |
| 22 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 way | amod |
| 23 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 right | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 shows | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | gerund | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 2 | mean in a quote | present · do-support | we | by the word | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic | ||||
| 3 | show | present | Asking | often property | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | is | present | both sides | words's own way | right property | 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:24.
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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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