Elections, crime, the weather, breaking news and news vs opinion, sentence 12
When two channels give different numbers of people hurt, it is usually because nobody knows the exact number yet, not because one is lying.
Who acts: two channels, news, one · What happens: give, hurt, be, not lie · To what, where: different numbers, people
This is a sentence of the lesson «Elections, crime, the weather, breaking news and news vs opinion» 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 (two channels, news, one), 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 4 give | mark |
| 2 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 channels | nummod |
| 3 | channels | channel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 give | nsubj |
| 4 | give | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 knows | advcl |
| 5 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 numbers | amod |
| 6 | numbers | number | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 give | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 people | case |
| 8 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 numbers | nmod |
| 9 | hurt | hurt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 people | acl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 give | punct |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 knows | nsubj |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 knows | cop |
| 13 | usually | usually | ADV | _ | 16 knows | advmod |
| 14 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 16 knows | mark |
| 15 | nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 16 knows | nsubj |
| 16 | knows | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 number | det |
| 18 | exact | exact | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 number | amod |
| 19 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 knows | obj |
| 20 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 16 knows | advmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 lying | punct |
| 22 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 26 lying | advmod |
| 23 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 26 lying | mark |
| 24 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 26 lying | nsubj |
| 25 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 lying | aux |
| 26 | lying | lie | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 16 knows | advcl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 knows | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | present | two channels | different numbers of people | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent number=Theme | ||||
| 2 | hurt | participle | people not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | is | present | news | yet | know, usually property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | not lie | present · progressive | one | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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:052-elections-crime-the-weather-breaking-news-and-news-vs-opinion.lesson:12.
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 ×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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