Tabloids, «sources close to» and the photo that tells a story, sentence 14
"Must have been sacked" and "gone into rehab" (a clinic to stop drinking or drugs) are often guesses invented to explain a simple announcement like leaving a show or taking a break.
Who acts: simple announcement · What happens: sack, go, stop, be, invent, explain · To what, where: rehab, drinking, clinic guesses, show, break · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Tabloids, «sources close to» and the photo that tells a story» 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 (simple announcement), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 sacked | punct |
| 2 | Must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 sacked | aux |
| 3 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 sacked | aux |
| 4 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 sacked | aux:pass |
| 5 | sacked | sack | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 sacked | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 gone | cc |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 gone | punct |
| 9 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 sacked | conj |
| 10 | into | into | ADP | _ | 11 rehab | case |
| 11 | rehab | rehab | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 gone | obl |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 gone | punct |
| 13 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 15 clinic | punct |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 clinic | det |
| 15 | clinic | clinic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 guesses | compound |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 stop | mark |
| 17 | stop | stop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 clinic | acl |
| 18 | drinking | drinking | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 stop | obj |
| 19 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 20 drugs | cc |
| 20 | drugs | drug | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 drinking | conj |
| 21 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 15 clinic | punct |
| 22 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 guesses | cop |
| 23 | often | often | ADV | _ | 24 guesses | advmod |
| 24 | guesses | guess | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 gone | conj |
| 25 | invented | invent | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 guesses | acl |
| 26 | to | to | PART | _ | 27 explain | mark |
| 27 | explain | explain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 invented | advcl |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 announcement | det |
| 29 | simple | simple | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 announcement | amod |
| 30 | announcement | announcement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 explain | obj |
| 31 | like | like | SCONJ | _ | 32 leaving | mark |
| 32 | leaving | leave | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 27 explain | advcl |
| 33 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 34 show | det |
| 34 | show | show | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 leaving | obj |
| 35 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 36 taking | cc |
| 36 | taking | take | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 32 leaving | conj |
| 37 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 38 break | det |
| 38 | break | break | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 taking | obj |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 24 guesses | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sack in a quote | must · perfect · passive | vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP» | ||||||
| 2 | go in a quote | participle | rehab | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into rehab=Initial_Location | |||||
| 3 | stop | to-infinitive | drinking or drugs | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality drinking=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | is a | present | clinic guesses | often property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | invent | participle | clinic guesses not said here | vn create-26.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | explain speech: assert | to-infinitive | a simple announcement | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 7 | leave | gerund | a simple announcement not said here | a show | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent show=Theme | ||||
| 8 | take | gerund | a simple announcement not said here | a break | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent break=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, 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:046-tabloids-sources-close-to-and-the-photo.lesson:14.
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): R6-punct-agree ×3, R7-rel-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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