Fighting fair: no straw men, no moving goalposts, no either-or, sentence 3
Mum says "less screen time on school nights"; Tom hears "never have fun again".
Who acts: Mum, Tom · What happens: say, hear, not have · To what, where: fun · 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 (Mum, Tom), 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 | Mum | mum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 says | nsubj |
| 2 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 time | punct |
| 4 | less | less | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 6 time | amod |
| 5 | screen | screen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 time | compound |
| 6 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 says | obj |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 nights | case |
| 8 | school | school | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 nights | compound |
| 9 | nights | night | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 time | nmod |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 time | punct |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 hears | punct |
| 12 | Tom | Tom | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 hears | nsubj |
| 13 | hears | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 says | conj |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 have | punct |
| 15 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 16 have | advmod |
| 16 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 hears | ccomp |
| 17 | fun | fun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 have | obj |
| 18 | again | again | ADV | _ | 16 have | advmod |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 have | punct |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 says | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | Mum | time | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | hear | present | Tom | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | not have in a quote | infinitive | fun | again | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fun=Patient |
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:3.
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, R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, 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.
See the release 0.4.
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