--- title: Claims nobody can check, like "my dad's got a hundred black belts",… — The football argument that goes in circles · tree and pragmatics description: Claims nobody can check, like "my dad's got a hundred black belts", are not real arguments. Who acts: nobody, dad, Claims. A sentence of the lesson «The football argument that goes in circles» of the world course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/170-the-football-argument-that-goes-in-circles/21/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [World](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/) / [The football argument that goes in cir…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/170-the-football-argument-that-goes-in-circles/) / 21 # The football argument that goes in circles, sentence 21 Claims nobody can check, like "my dad's got a hundred black belts", are not real arguments. **Who acts:** nobody, dad, Claims · **What happens:** check, get, not be · **To what, where:** hundred black belts, real arguments 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 (nobody, dad, Claims), 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:21 # text = Claims nobody can check, like "my dad's got a hundred black belts", are not real arguments. # 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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×3, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Claims claim NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 nsubj _ _ 2 nobody nobody PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 4 nsubj _ _ 3 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 4 check check VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 1 ccomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=1:acl:relcl 5 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 6 like like SCONJ IN _ 11 mark _ _ 7 " " PUNCT `` _ 11 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=9:punct 8 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 9 nmod:poss _ _ 9 dad dad NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 10 's have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 aux _ _ 11 got get VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 1 advcl _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:det 13 hundred hundred NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 15 nummod _ _ 14 black black ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 belts belt NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obj _ _ 16 " " PUNCT '' _ 11 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=15:punct 17 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 18 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 cop _ _ 19 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 21 advmod _ _ 20 real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 arguments argument NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 22 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=21:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **check** | can | nobody | | | | | | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **get** *in a quote* | participle | my dad | hundred black belts | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer belt=Stimulus | | 3 | **not** **is a** | present | Claims | real arguments | | | | | 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:21`. **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, R6-punct-agree ×3, R7-rel-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: [The football argument that goes in cir…, 20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/170-the-football-argument-that-goes-in-circles/20/) - next →: [The football argument that goes in cir…, 22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/170-the-football-argument-that-goes-in-circles/22/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/170-the-football-argument-that-goes-in-circles/)