Elections, crime, the weather, breaking news and news vs opinion, sentence 19
A TV weather presenter stands in front of a plain green screen; the map is added by computer, so he points at a screen he watches off to the side.
Who acts: TV weather presenter, computer, presenter · What happens: stand, add, point, watch off · To what, where: front, map, screen
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 (TV weather presenter, computer, presenter), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 presenter | det |
| 2 | TV | TV | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 presenter | compound |
| 3 | weather | weather | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 presenter | compound |
| 4 | presenter | presenter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 stands | nsubj |
| 5 | stands | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 front | case |
| 7 | front | front | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 stands | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 screen | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 screen | det |
| 10 | plain | plain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 screen | amod |
| 11 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 screen | amod |
| 12 | screen | screen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 front | nmod |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 added | punct |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 map | det |
| 15 | map | map | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 added | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 added | aux:pass |
| 17 | added | add | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 stands | parataxis |
| 18 | by | by | ADP | _ | 19 computer | case |
| 19 | computer | computer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 added | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 points | punct |
| 21 | so | so | ADV | _ | 23 points | advmod |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 points | nsubj |
| 23 | points | point | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 added | conj |
| 24 | at | at | ADP | _ | 26 screen | case |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 screen | det |
| 26 | screen | screen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 points | obl |
| 27 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 watches | nsubj |
| 28 | watches | watch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 screen | acl:relcl |
| 29 | off | off | ADP | _ | 28 watches | compound:prt |
| 30 | to | to | ADP | _ | 32 side | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 side | det |
| 32 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 watches | obl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 stands | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | present | a TV weather presenter | front of a plain green screen | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in front=Location | ||||
| 2 | add speech: assert | present · passive | computer | the map | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient | ||||
| 3 | point | present | presenter | a screen | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | watch off | present | presenter | a screen not said here | to the side | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent screen=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:052-elections-crime-the-weather-breaking-news-and-news-vs-opinion.lesson:19.
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): R2-punct-next ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, 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.
See the release 0.4.
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