"It's on TikTok so it's true" and the comment section, sentence 16
Calling people names instead of giving reasons is called attacking the person; it is not an argument.
Who acts: Calling, person · What happens: call, give, attack, not be · To what, where: people names, reasons, person, argument · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «"It's on TikTok so it's true" and the comment section» 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), 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 | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 called | csubj:pass |
| 2 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 names | compound |
| 3 | names | name | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Calling | obj |
| 4 | instead | instead | ADV | ExtPos=SCONJ | 6 giving | mark |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 instead | fixed |
| 6 | giving | give | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 1 Calling | advcl |
| 7 | reasons | reason | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 giving | obj |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 called | aux:pass |
| 9 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 10 | attacking | attack | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 called | xcomp |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 person | det |
| 12 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 attacking | obj |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 argument | punct |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 argument | nsubj |
| 15 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 argument | cop |
| 16 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 18 argument | advmod |
| 17 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 argument | det |
| 18 | argument | argument | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 called | parataxis |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 called | 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 | people names | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent name=Recipient | |||||
| 2 | give | gerund | reasons | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reason=Theme | |||||
| 3 | call speech: assert | present · passive | Calling | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | attack | gerund | Calling not said here | the person | vn attack-60.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent person=Patient | ||||
| 5 | not is a | present | person | a argument | 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:175-its-on-tiktok-so-its-true-and-the-comment-section.lesson:16.
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.
See the release 0.4.
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