"If... then..." and its traps, sentence 7
Even perfect steps give a wrong answer if the starting rule is false: "if the dog barks, someone's at the door" fails the day he barks at a squirrel.
Who acts: perfect steps, starting rule, dog · What happens: give, be, bark, fail · To what, where: wrong answer, door, day
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 (perfect steps, starting rule, dog), 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 | Even | even | ADV | _ | 3 steps | advmod |
| 2 | perfect | perfect | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 steps | amod |
| 3 | steps | step | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 give | nsubj |
| 4 | give | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 answer | det |
| 6 | wrong | wrong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 answer | amod |
| 7 | answer | answer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 give | obj |
| 8 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 13 false | mark |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 rule | det |
| 10 | starting | starting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 rule | compound |
| 11 | rule | rule | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 false | nsubj |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 false | cop |
| 13 | false | false | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 give | advcl |
| 14 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 19 barks | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 barks | punct |
| 16 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 19 barks | mark |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 dog | det |
| 18 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 barks | nsubj |
| 19 | barks | bark | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 fails | csubj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 someone | punct |
| 21 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 19 barks | conj |
| 22 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 door | cop |
| 23 | at | at | ADP | _ | 25 door | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 door | det |
| 25 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 fails | obl |
| 26 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 25 door | punct |
| 27 | fails | fail | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 give | advcl |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 day | det |
| 29 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 fails | obl |
| 30 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 barks | nsubj |
| 31 | barks | bark | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 day | acl:relcl |
| 32 | at | at | ADP | _ | 34 squirrel | case |
| 33 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 34 squirrel | det |
| 34 | squirrel | squirrel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 barks | obl |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 give | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | present | perfect steps | a wrong answer | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent answer=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is a condition, not said to happen | present | the starting rule | false property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | bark a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present | the dog | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is in a quote | present | the door | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | fail | present | perfect steps not said here | day | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 6 | bark | present | dog | the day not said here | at a squirrel | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme PP.recipient PP.stimulus»: agent=Agent day=Theme at squirrel=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:7.
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): R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2. 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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