The football argument that goes in circles, sentence 7
If you don't agree what the word means, you can argue all day and nobody can win.
Who acts: you, word, nobody · What happens: not agree, mean, argue, win
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 (you, word, 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 5 agree | mark |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 agree | nsubj |
| 3 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 agree | aux |
| 4 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 agree | advmod |
| 5 | agree | agree | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 argue | advcl |
| 6 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 agree | obj |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 word | det |
| 8 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 means | nsubj |
| 9 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 what | acl:relcl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 agree | punct |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 argue | nsubj |
| 12 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 argue | aux |
| 13 | argue | argue | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 14 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 15 day | det |
| 15 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 argue | obl:unmarked |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 win | cc |
| 17 | nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 19 win | nsubj |
| 18 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 win | aux |
| 19 | win | win | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 argue | conj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 argue | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=assert
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not agree speech: agree a condition, not said to happen | present · do-support | you | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent what=Topic | |||||
| 2 | mean | present | the word | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | argue speech: disagree | can | you | day | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | win | can | nobody | vn succeed-74-2 «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:7.
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): no change. 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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