Tabloids, «sources close to» and the photo that tells a story, sentence 18
"Everyone says so" in a gossip story usually means one unnamed person said it.
Who acts: Everyone, one unnamed person · What happens: say, mean · To what, where: gossip story, story · 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 (Everyone, one unnamed person), 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 | _ | 3 says | punct |
| 2 | Everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 3 says | nsubj |
| 3 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | so | so | ADV | _ | 5 " | advmod |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 says | punct |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 story | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 story | det |
| 8 | gossip | gossip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 story | compound |
| 9 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 means | obl |
| 10 | usually | usually | ADV | _ | 11 means | advmod |
| 11 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 says | ccomp |
| 12 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 person | nummod |
| 13 | unnamed | unnamed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 person | amod |
| 14 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 said | nsubj |
| 15 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 means | ccomp |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 said | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 means | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- character
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed polarity=none
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert in a quote | present | Everyone | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | mean | present | a gossip story | usually property | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | one unnamed person | story | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent it=Topic |
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:18.
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 ×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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