Elections, crime, the weather, breaking news and news vs opinion, sentence 17
Local crime news tells neighbours to lock up and helps the police; police chase shows pick the most exciting chases from many months, and real roads are mostly calm.
Who acts: Local crime news, neighbours, chase shows, real roads · What happens: tell, lock up, help, pick, be · To what, where: neighbours, police, exciting chases · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Local crime news, neighbours, chase shows, real roads), 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 | Local | local | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 news | amod |
| 2 | crime | crime | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 news | compound |
| 3 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 tells | nsubj |
| 4 | tells | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | neighbours | neighbour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 tells | obj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 lock | mark |
| 7 | lock | lock | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 tells | xcomp |
| 8 | up | up | ADP | _ | 7 lock | compound:prt |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 helps | cc |
| 10 | helps | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 tells | conj |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 police | det |
| 12 | police | police | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 helps | obj |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 pick | punct |
| 14 | police | police | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 chase | compound |
| 15 | chase | chase | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 shows | compound |
| 16 | shows | show | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 pick | nsubj |
| 17 | pick | pick | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 tells | conj |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 chases | det |
| 19 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 20 exciting | advmod |
| 20 | exciting | exciting | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 chases | amod |
| 21 | chases | chase | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 pick | obj |
| 22 | from | from | ADP | _ | 24 months | case |
| 23 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 months | amod |
| 24 | months | month | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 pick | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 calm | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 calm | cc |
| 27 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 roads | amod |
| 28 | roads | road | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 calm | nsubj |
| 29 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 calm | cop |
| 30 | mostly | mostly | ADV | _ | 31 calm | advmod |
| 31 | calm | calm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 helps | conj |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 tells | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | present | Local crime news | neighbours | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent neighbour=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | lock up not said to happen | to-infinitive | neighbours not said here | vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 3 | help | present | Local crime news not said here | the police | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent police=Beneficiary | ||||
| 4 | pick | present | chase shows | the exciting chases | month | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chase=Patient | |||
| 5 | is | present | real roads | calm, mostly property | tree rules |
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: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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×2, 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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