Tabloids, «sources close to» and the photo that tells a story, sentence 17

Some years ago some British newspaper journalists secretly listened to famous people's phone messages, which is against the law; they were caught, and it became a huge scandal.

Who acts: British newspaper journalists, clip · What happens: listen, catch, become · To what, where: journalists, huge scandal

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 (British newspaper journalists, clip), 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	Some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	2 years	det
2	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 ago	obl:unmarked
3	ago	ago	ADV	_	9 listened	advmod
4	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	7 journalists	det
5	British	British	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 journalists	amod
6	newspaper	newspaper	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 journalists	compound
7	journalists	journalist	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 listened	nsubj
8	secretly	secretly	ADV	_	9 listened	advmod
9	listened	listen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	to	to	ADP	_	15 messages	case
11	famous	famous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 people	amod
12	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 messages	nmod:poss
13	's	's	PART	_	12 people	case
14	phone	phone	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 messages	compound
15	messages	message	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 listened	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 law	punct
17	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 against	nsubj
18	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 against	cop
19	against	against	ADP	_	15 messages	acl:relcl
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 law	det
21	law	law	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 against	obl
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 caught	punct
23	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 caught	nsubj:pass
24	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 caught	aux:pass
25	caught	catch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 listened	conj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 became	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 became	cc
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 became	nsubj
29	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 caught	conj
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 scandal	det
31	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 scandal	amod
32	scandal	scandal	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 became	xcomp
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 listened	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	listen	past	some British newspaper journalists		to famous people's phone messages; ago, secretly property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to message=Theme
2	catch	past · passive		journalists = journalist		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
3	become	past	clip	a huge scandal		vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient

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:17.

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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-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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