The royal family in the news: a queen's death, a coronation, titles lost and illnesses announced, sentence 25
When two stories contradict each other and there is no proof, the honest answer is «we don't know».
Who acts: two stories, proof, honest answer, we · What happens: contradict, be, not know · To what, where: each · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «The royal family in the news: a queen's death, a coronation, titles lost and illnesses announced» 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 (two stories, proof, honest answer, we), 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 4 contradict | mark |
| 2 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 stories | nummod |
| 3 | stories | story | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 contradict | nsubj |
| 4 | contradict | contradict | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 is | advcl |
| 5 | each | each | DET | ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp | 4 contradict | obj |
| 6 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 each | fixed |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 is | cc |
| 8 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 9 is | expl |
| 9 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 contradict | conj |
| 10 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 11 proof | det |
| 11 | proof | proof | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 is | nsubj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 contradict | punct |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 answer | det |
| 14 | honest | honest | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 answer | amod |
| 15 | answer | answer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 is | nsubj |
| 16 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 21 know | punct |
| 18 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 know | nsubj |
| 19 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 know | aux |
| 20 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 21 know | advmod |
| 21 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 is | parataxis |
| 22 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 21 know | punct |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 is | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | contradict | present | two stories | each | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | present | no proof | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | be | present | the honest answer | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | not know in a quote | present · do-support | we | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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:045-the-royal-family-in-the-news-a-queens-death-a-coronation-titles-lost-and-illnesses-announced.lesson:25.
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): no change. 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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