Viral rumours, cancellations, fakes and apologies, sentence 5

Some public fights are a show, like boxers' trash talk before a match; some are real hurt, like thousands of cruel messages to one writer.

Who acts: public fights, some, boxers · What happens: be, talk · To what, where: show

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 (public fights, some, boxers), 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	3 fights	det
2	public	public	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 fights	amod
3	fights	fight	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 show	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 show	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 show	det
6	show	show	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 talk	punct
8	like	like	ADP	_	12 talk	case
9	boxers	boxer	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 talk	nmod:poss
10	'	's	PART	_	9 boxers	case
11	trash	trash	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 talk	compound
12	talk	talk	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 show	nmod
13	before	before	ADP	_	15 match	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 match	det
15	match	match	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 talk	nmod
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 hurt	punct
17	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	20 hurt	nsubj
18	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 hurt	cop
19	real	real	ADV	_	20 hurt	advmod
20	hurt	hurt	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 show	parataxis
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 thousands	punct
22	like	like	ADP	_	23 thousands	case
23	thousands	thousand	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 hurt	obl
24	of	of	ADP	_	26 messages	case
25	cruel	cruel	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 messages	amod
26	messages	message	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 thousands	nmod
27	to	to	ADP	_	29 writer	case
28	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	29 writer	nummod
29	writer	writer	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 messages	nmod
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 show	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	some public fights	a show		like boxers's trash talk before a match	tree rules
2	is	present	some			like thousands of cruel messages to one writer; hurt, real property	tree rules
3	talk		boxers		before a match		nom talk «communication intransitive»: poss=agent before=obl

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:5.

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): R7-rel-agree ×4. 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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