Fighting fair: no straw men, no moving goalposts, no either-or, sentence 19
Being scared of one thing doesn't mean being scared of everything; fears are specific.
Who acts: fears · What happens: be, not mean · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Fighting fair: no straw men, no moving goalposts, no either-or» 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 (fears), 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 | Being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 scared | cop |
| 2 | scared | scared | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 mean | csubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 thing | case |
| 4 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 thing | nummod |
| 5 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 scared | obl |
| 6 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 mean | aux |
| 7 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 mean | advmod |
| 8 | mean | mean | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 scared | cop |
| 10 | scared | scared | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 mean | xcomp |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 everything | case |
| 12 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 10 scared | obl |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 specific | punct |
| 14 | fears | fear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 specific | nsubj |
| 15 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 specific | cop |
| 16 | specific | specific | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 mean | parataxis |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 mean | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | gerund | of one thing; scared property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | not mean | present · do-support | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | is not said to happen | gerund | of everything; scared property | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | is | present | fears | specific property | 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:189-fighting-fair-no-straw-men-no-moving-goalposts-no-either-or.lesson:19.
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 ×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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