Adverts and "8 out of 10 cats", sentence 14
A vote is only fair if lots of people with no reason to pick one side take part; the owner's family is not a fair jury.
Who acts: vote, lots, family · What happens: be, pick, take, not be · To what, where: one side, part, fair jury
This is a sentence of the lesson «Adverts and "8 out of 10 cats"» 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 (vote, lots, family), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 vote | det |
| 2 | vote | vote | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 fair | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 fair | cop |
| 4 | only | only | ADV | _ | 5 fair | advmod |
| 5 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 17 take | mark |
| 7 | lots | lot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 take | nsubj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 people | case |
| 9 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 lots | nmod |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 reason | case |
| 11 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 12 reason | det |
| 12 | reason | reason | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 people | nmod |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 pick | mark |
| 14 | pick | pick | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 reason | acl |
| 15 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 side | nummod |
| 16 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 pick | obj |
| 17 | take | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 fair | advcl |
| 18 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 take | obj |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 28 jury | punct |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 owner | det |
| 21 | owner | owner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 family | nmod:poss |
| 22 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 21 owner | case |
| 23 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 jury | nsubj |
| 24 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 jury | cop |
| 25 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 28 jury | advmod |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 jury | det |
| 27 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 jury | amod |
| 28 | jury | jury | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 fair | parataxis |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 fair | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | a vote | fair property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | pick | to-infinitive | lots of people with no reason not said here | one side | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent side=Patient | ||||
| 3 | take a condition, not said to happen | present | lots of people with no reason | part | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent part=Theme | ||||
| 4 | not is a | present | the owner's family | a fair jury | 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:176-adverts-and-8-out-of-10-cats.lesson:14.
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): R2-punct-next ×1, 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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