"The game is rigged because I lost", sentence 11
Sometimes the excuse doesn't even fit the facts.
Who acts: excuse · What happens: not fit · To what, where: facts
This is a sentence of the lesson «"The game is rigged because I lost"» 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 (excuse), 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 | Sometimes | sometimes | ADV | PronType=Ind | 7 fit | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 excuse | det |
| 3 | excuse | excuse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 fit | nsubj |
| 4 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 fit | aux |
| 5 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 fit | advmod |
| 6 | even | even | ADV | _ | 7 fit | advmod |
| 7 | fit | fit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 facts | det |
| 9 | facts | fact | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 fit | obj |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 fit | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not fit | present · do-support | the excuse | the facts | sometimes property | vn adjust-26.9 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fact=Patient |
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:173-the-game-is-rigged-because-i-lost.lesson:11.
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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