"If... then..." and its traps, sentence 11
Running an "if" backwards is a mistake grown-ups call affirming the consequent.
Who acts: Running, mistake · What happens: run, be, grow, call, affirm · To what, where: mistake, consequent · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «"If... then..." and its traps» 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 (Running, mistake), 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 | Running | run | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 mistake | csubj |
| 2 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 backwards | det |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 if | punct |
| 4 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 6 backwards | mark |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 if | punct |
| 6 | backwards | backward | ADV | _ | 1 Running | advmod |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 mistake | cop |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 mistake | det |
| 9 | mistake | mistake | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 10 | grown | grow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 ups | compound |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 grown | punct |
| 12 | ups | up | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 call | compound |
| 13 | call | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 mistake | acl:relcl |
| 14 | affirming | affirm | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 13 call | acl |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 consequent | det |
| 16 | consequent | consequent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 affirming | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 mistake | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run | gerund | backward property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | is a | present | Running | a mistake | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | grow | participle | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | call | present | a mistake not said here | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | affirm | gerund | the consequent | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer consequent=Stimulus |
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:184-if-then-and-its-traps.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): R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×3. 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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