--- title: Two boys argue: "Messi's better because he's the best." "No, Ronaldo… — The football argument that goes in circles · tree and pragmatics description: Two boys argue: "Messi's better because he's the best." "No, Ronaldo's better because he's the greatest." For fifteen minutes. Who acts: Two boys, Messi, Ronaldo. 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For fifteen minutes. **Who acts:** Two boys, Messi, Ronaldo · **What happens:** argue, be · **To what, where:** Messi, Ronaldo · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «The football argument that goes in circles» 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 (Two boys, Messi, Ronaldo), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:world:170-the-football-argument-that-goes-in-circles.lesson:0 # text = Two boys argue: "Messi's better because he's the best." "No, Ronaldo's better because he's the greatest." For fifteen minutes. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = world # lesson = 170-the-football-argument-that-goes-in-circles.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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 2 nummod _ _ 2 boys boy NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 argue argue VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 : : PUNCT : _ 8 punct _ _ 5 " " PUNCT `` _ 8 punct _ _ 6 Messi Messi PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 7 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 8 better good ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 3 ccomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj 9 because because SCONJ IN _ 13 mark _ _ 10 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 11 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 cop _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 best good ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 8 advcl _ _ 14 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ 15 " " PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ 16 " " PUNCT `` _ 21 punct _ _ 17 No no INTJ UH Polarity=Neg 21 discourse _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 19 Ronaldo Ronaldo PROPN NNP Number=Sing 21 nsubj _ _ 20 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 cop _ _ 21 better good ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 3 conj _ _ 22 because because SCONJ IN _ 26 mark _ _ 23 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 24 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 cop _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 greatest great ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 21 advcl _ _ 27 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ 28 " " PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=3:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:":_ 29 For for ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 30 fifteen fifteen NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 31 nummod _ _ 31 minutes minute NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obl _ _ 32 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **argue** *speech: disagree* | present | Two boys | | | | minute | | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | | Messi | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **is** *in a quote* | present | Messi | | | | | good *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | | Ronaldo | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **is** *in a quote* | present | Ronaldo | | | | | great *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](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:170-the-football-argument-that-goes-in-circles.lesson:0`. **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 ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1. **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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Bets, dares and silly reasons, 19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/169-bets-dares-and-silly-reasons/19/) - next →: [The football argument that goes in cir…, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/170-the-football-argument-that-goes-in-circles/1/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/170-the-football-argument-that-goes-in-circles/)