Viral rumours, cancellations, fakes and apologies, sentence 17

Printing harmful lies about a person can be against the law; it is called defamation, and a court can make the paper pay the person money for the harm.

Who acts: Printing, court, paper · What happens: print, be, call, make, pay · To what, where: harmful lies, lie, paper, person money · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Viral rumours, cancellations, fakes and apologies» 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 (Printing, court, paper), 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	Printing	print	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 law	csubj
2	harmful	harmful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 lies	amod
3	lies	lie	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Printing	obj
4	about	about	ADP	_	6 person	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 person	det
6	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lies	nmod
7	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 law	aux
8	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	11 law	cop
9	against	against	ADP	_	11 law	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 law	det
11	law	law	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 called	parataxis
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 called	punct
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 called	nsubj:pass
14	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 called	aux:pass
15	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
16	defamation	defamation	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 called	xcomp
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 make	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 make	cc
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 court	det
20	court	court	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 make	nsubj
21	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 make	aux
22	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 called	conj
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 paper	det
24	paper	paper	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 make	obj
25	pay	pay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 make	xcomp
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 money	det
27	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 money	compound
28	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 pay	obj
29	for	for	ADP	_	31 harm	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 harm	det
31	harm	harm	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 pay	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 law	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	print	gerund		harmful lies	about a person	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lie=Theme
2	is	can	Printing		against the law	tree rules
3	call speech: assert	present · passive		lie		vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient
4	make	can	a court	the paper		tree rules
5	pay	infinitive	the paper not said here	the person money	for the harm	vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent money=Asset for harm=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:047-viral-rumours-cancellations-fakes-and-apologies.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): 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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