Elections, crime, the weather, breaking news and news vs opinion, sentence 18
"Charged" means a person has been accused of a crime; a court decides if he did it, and until then he is innocent.
Who acts: court, person · What happens: charge, mean, accuse, decide, do, be · To what, where: person, court · 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 (court, person), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Charged | punct |
| 2 | Charged | charge | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 means | csubj |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Charged | punct |
| 4 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 person | det |
| 6 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 accused | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 accused | aux |
| 8 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 accused | aux:pass |
| 9 | accused | accuse | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 means | ccomp |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 crime | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 crime | det |
| 12 | crime | crime | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 accused | obl |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 decides | punct |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 court | det |
| 15 | court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 decides | nsubj |
| 16 | decides | decide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 means | conj |
| 17 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 19 did | mark |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 did | nsubj |
| 19 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 decides | advcl |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 did | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 innocent | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 innocent | cc |
| 23 | until | until | ADP | _ | 24 then | case |
| 24 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 27 innocent | obl |
| 25 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 innocent | nsubj |
| 26 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 innocent | cop |
| 27 | innocent | innocent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 decides | conj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 means | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | charge in a quote | participle | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | mean | present | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 3 | accuse | present · perfect · passive | a person | of a crime | vn suspect-81 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Theme of crime=Attribute | ||||
| 4 | decide | present | a court | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | do a condition, not said to happen | past | person | court | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality | ||||
| 6 | is | present | person | innocent 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:18.
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): R1-cc-next ×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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