Rumours about classmates and what to do with a secret, sentence 9
Before believing a shocking story, look it up on a proper news site, and check its date.
Who acts: you · What happens: believe, look up, check · To what, where: shocking story, story, proper news site, date
This is a sentence of the lesson «Rumours about classmates and what to do with a secret» 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 (you), 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 | Before | before | SCONJ | _ | 2 believing | mark |
| 2 | believing | believe | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 look | advcl |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 story | det |
| 4 | shocking | shocking | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 story | amod |
| 5 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 believing | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 believing | punct |
| 7 | look | look | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 look | obj |
| 9 | up | up | ADP | _ | 7 look | compound:prt |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 14 site | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 site | det |
| 12 | proper | proper | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 site | amod |
| 13 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 site | compound |
| 14 | site | site | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 look | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 check | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 check | cc |
| 17 | check | check | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 7 look | conj |
| 18 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 date | nmod:poss |
| 19 | date | date | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 check | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 look | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | believe | gerund | you not said here | a shocking story | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer story=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | look up | imperative | you not said here | story | a proper news site | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Attribute | |||
| 3 | check | infinitive | you not said here | site's date | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent date=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:050-rumours-about-classmates-and-secrets.lesson:9.
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): R8-pos-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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