--- title: Special pleading is a rule for everyone except me: "No phones at the… — The brother who never does anything wrong: doubl… · tree and pragmatics description: Special pleading is a rule for everyone except me: "No phones at the table," says Dad, then checks his own: "That's different, it's work." Or: "Sugar is bad," says Dad, eating a doughnut, "but grown-ups need energy." Who acts: Special pleading, phones, That, pleading. 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Or: "Sugar is bad," says Dad, eating a doughnut, "but grown-ups need energy." **Who acts:** Special pleading, phones, That, pleading, Sugar, Dad · **What happens:** be, say, check, eat, grow, need · **To what, where:** rule, own, work, doughnut, energy · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «The brother who never does anything wrong: double standards at home» 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 (Special pleading, phones, That, pleading), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:world:165-the-brother-who-never-does-anything-wrong-double-standards.lesson:4 # text = Special pleading is a rule for everyone except me: "No phones at the table," says Dad, then checks his own: "That's different, it's work." Or: "Sugar is bad," says Dad, eating a doughnut, "but grown-ups need energy." # source = school lesson (ours) # course = world # lesson = 165-the-brother-who-never-does-anything-wrong-double-standards.lesson # annotation = 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 ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 Special special ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 pleading pleading NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 rule rule NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 6 for for ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 everyone everyone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Tot 5 nmod _ _ 8 except except ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 7 nmod _ _ 10 : : PUNCT : _ 13 punct _ _ 11 " " PUNCT `` _ 13 punct _ _ 12 No no DET DT PronType=Neg 13 det _ _ 13 phones phone NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 nsubj _ _ 14 at at ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 table table NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nmod _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 18 " " PUNCT '' _ 13 punct _ _ 19 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 20 Dad Dad PROPN NNP Number=Sing 19 nsubj _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 22 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 23 advmod _ _ 23 checks check VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 conj _ _ 24 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 25 nmod:poss _ _ 25 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 obj _ _ 26 : : PUNCT : _ 30 punct _ _ 27 " " PUNCT `` _ 30 punct _ _ 28 That that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 30 nsubj _ _ 29 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 30 cop _ _ 30 different different ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 parataxis _ _ 31 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 32 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 34 nsubj _ _ 33 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 34 cop _ _ 34 work work NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 parataxis _ _ 35 . . PUNCT . _ 34 punct _ _ 36 " " PUNCT '' _ 34 punct _ _ 37 Or or CCONJ CC _ 45 cc _ _ 38 : : PUNCT : _ 42 punct _ _ 39 " " PUNCT `` _ 42 punct _ _ 40 Sugar sugar NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 nsubj _ _ 41 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 42 cop _ _ 42 bad bad ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 45 ccomp _ _ 43 , , PUNCT , _ 42 punct _ _ 44 " " PUNCT '' _ 42 punct _ _ 45 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 34 conj _ _ 46 Dad Dad PROPN NNP Number=Sing 45 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=48:nsubj 47 , , PUNCT , _ 46 punct _ _ 48 eating eat VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 45 advcl _ _ 49 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 50 det _ _ 50 doughnut doughnut NOUN NN Number=Sing 48 obj _ _ 51 , , PUNCT , _ 48 punct _ _ 52 " " PUNCT `` _ 34 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=34:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 53 but but CCONJ CC _ 57 cc _ _ 54 grown grow VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 56 amod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=56:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 55 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 30 punct _ _ 56 ups up NOUN NNS Number=Plur 57 nsubj _ _ 57 need need VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 42 conj _ _ 58 energy energy NOUN NN Number=Sing 57 obj _ _ 59 . . PUNCT . _ 19 punct _ _ 60 " " PUNCT '' _ 19 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | Special pleading | a rule | | | | for everyone | tree rules | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | no phones at the table | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **check** | present | no phones at the table *not said here* | Dad's own | | | then | | tree rules | | 4 | **is** *in a quote* | present | That | | | | | different *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | pleading | work | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **is** *in a quote* | present | Sugar | | | | | bad *property* | tree rules | | 7 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Dad | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 8 | **eat** | gerund | Dad *not said here* | a doughnut | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent doughnut=Patient | | 9 | **grow** *in a quote* | participle | | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 10 | **need** *in a quote* | present | grown ups | energy | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot energy=Theme | 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](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:165-the-brother-who-never-does-anything-wrong-double-standards.lesson:4`. **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 ×1, R8-pos-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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