The royal family in the news: a wedding, a move to America, an interview and a book, sentence 23
A headline word like «Megxit» or «snub» makes a complicated choice sound simple and nasty.
Who acts: headline word, complicated choice · What happens: make, sound · To what, where: complicated choice
This is a sentence of the lesson «The royal family in the news: a wedding, a move to America, an interview and a book» of the adult life 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 (headline word, complicated choice), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 word | det |
| 2 | headline | headline | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 word | compound |
| 3 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 makes | nsubj |
| 4 | like | like | ADP | _ | 6 Megxit | case |
| 5 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 6 Megxit | punct |
| 6 | Megxit | Megxit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 word | nmod |
| 7 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 6 Megxit | punct |
| 8 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 10 snub | cc |
| 9 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 10 snub | punct |
| 10 | snub | snub | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 Megxit | conj |
| 11 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 10 snub | punct |
| 12 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 choice | det |
| 14 | complicated | complicated | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 choice | amod |
| 15 | choice | choice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 makes | obj |
| 16 | sound | sound | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 choice | acl |
| 17 | simple | simple | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 sound | xcomp |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 nasty | cc |
| 19 | nasty | nasty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 simple | conj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 makes | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | present | a headline word like Megxit or snub | a complicated choice | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset choice=Product | ||||
| 2 | sound | infinitive | a complicated choice not said here | simple property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
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:adult-life:044-the-royal-family-in-the-news-a-wedding-a-move-to-america-an-interview-and-a-book.lesson:23.
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): 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.
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