The YouTuber who is right about everything, sentence 25
Calling every mistake "a joke" means the person can never be wrong; grown-ups call that moving the goalposts.
Who acts: Calling, person, grown ups · What happens: call, mean, not be, move · To what, where: mistake, goalposts · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «The YouTuber who is right about everything» 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 (Calling, person, grown ups), 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 | Calling | call | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 means | csubj |
| 2 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 mistake | det |
| 3 | mistake | mistake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Calling | obj |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 joke | punct |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 joke | det |
| 6 | joke | joke | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 mistake | appos |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 joke | punct |
| 8 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 person | det |
| 10 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 wrong | nsubj |
| 11 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 wrong | aux |
| 12 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 14 wrong | advmod |
| 13 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 14 wrong | cop |
| 14 | wrong | wrong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 means | ccomp |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 grown | punct |
| 16 | grown | grow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 ups | amod |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 ups | punct |
| 18 | ups | up | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 call | nsubj |
| 19 | call | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 means | parataxis |
| 20 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 21 moving | mark |
| 21 | moving | move | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 19 call | advcl |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 goalposts | det |
| 23 | goalposts | goalpost | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 moving | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 means | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | gerund | every mistake | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent mistake=Recipient | |||||
| 2 | mean | present | Calling | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | not is | can | the person | wrong property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | call | present | grown ups | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | move | gerund | grown ups not said here | the goalposts | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent goalpost=Theme |
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:174-the-youtuber-who-is-right-about-everything.lesson:25.
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): 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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