The football argument that goes in circles, sentence 3

Other tricks keep a playground argument spinning: throwing out the games you lost ("those don't count, the ref was bad"), making up a rule after you lose ("there's a base now"), and shouting louder ("In!" "Out!" "In!") when neither of you saw it.

Who acts: Other tricks, playground argument, you, those, ref, base · What happens: keep out, spin, throw out, lose, not count, be · To what, where: playground argument, games, rule, base · 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 (Other tricks, playground argument, you, those), 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	Other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 tricks	amod
2	tricks	trick	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 keep	nsubj
3	keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 argument	det
5	playground	playground	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 argument	compound
6	argument	argument	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 keep	obj
7	spinning	spin	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 keep	xcomp
8	:	:	PUNCT	_	9 throwing	punct
9	throwing	throw	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 spinning	conj
10	out	out	ADP	_	9 throwing	compound:prt
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 games	det
12	games	game	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 throwing	obj
13	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	14 lost	nsubj
14	lost	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 games	acl:relcl
15	(	(	PUNCT	_	20 count	punct
16	"	"	PUNCT	_	20 count	punct
17	those	that	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	20 count	nsubj
18	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 count	aux
19	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	20 count	advmod
20	count	count	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 lost	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 bad	punct
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 ref	det
23	ref	ref	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 bad	nsubj
24	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 bad	cop
25	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 count	parataxis
26	"	"	PUNCT	_	20 count	punct
27	)	)	PUNCT	_	20 count	punct
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 making	punct
29	making	make	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 throwing	conj
30	up	up	ADP	_	29 making	compound:prt
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 rule	det
32	rule	rule	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 making	obj
33	after	after	SCONJ	_	35 lose	mark
34	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	35 lose	nsubj
35	lose	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 making	advcl
36	(	(	PUNCT	_	39 's	punct
37	"	"	PUNCT	_	39 's	punct
38	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	39 's	expl
39	's	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	35 lose	ccomp
40	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	41 base	det
41	base	base	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 's	nsubj
42	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	41 base	advmod
43	"	"	PUNCT	_	39 's	punct
44	)	)	PUNCT	_	39 's	punct
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 shouting	punct
46	and	and	CCONJ	_	47 shouting	cc
47	shouting	shout	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 throwing	conj
48	louder	loud	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	47 shouting	parataxis
49	(	(	PUNCT	_	52 !	punct
50	"	"	PUNCT	_	51 In	punct
51	In	in	ADP	_	52 !	case
52	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 keep	punct
53	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 keep	punct
54	"	"	PUNCT	_	55 Out	punct
55	Out	out	ADP	_	3 keep	compound:prt
56	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 keep	punct
57	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 keep	punct
58	"	"	PUNCT	_	59 In	punct
59	In	in	ADP	_	60 !	case
60	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 keep	punct
61	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 keep	punct
62	)	)	PUNCT	_	3 keep	punct
63	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	67 saw	advmod
64	neither	neither	DET	PronType=Neg	67 saw	nsubj
65	of	of	ADP	_	66 you	case
66	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	64 neither	nmod
67	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 keep	advcl
68	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	67 saw	obj
69	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 keep	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	keep out	present	Other tricks	a playground argument			tree rules
2	spin	gerund	a playground argument not said here				vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
3	throw out	gerund	a playground argument not said here	the games			vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent game=Theme
4	lose	past	you	the games not said here			vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent game=Eventuality
5	not count in a quote	present · do-support	those				vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus
6	is in a quote	past	the ref			bad property	tree rules
7	make up	gerund	a playground argument not said here	a rule			vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme rule=Pivot
8	lose	present	you				tree rules
9	be in a quote	present	a base		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
10	shout speech: express	gerund	a playground argument not said here				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
11	see	past	neither	base			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus

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:3.

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 ×4. 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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