Elections, crime, the weather, breaking news and news vs opinion, sentence 2
Clever viewers ask three questions: is this what happened, or what someone thinks?
Who acts: Clever viewers, this, someone · What happens: ask, be, happen, think · To what, where: three questions
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 (Clever viewers, this, someone), 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 | Clever | clever | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 viewers | amod |
| 2 | viewers | viewer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 ask | nsubj |
| 3 | ask | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 questions | nummod |
| 5 | questions | question | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 ask | obj |
| 6 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 9 what | punct |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 what | cop |
| 8 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 what | nsubj |
| 9 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 ask | parataxis |
| 10 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 what | acl:relcl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 thinks | punct |
| 12 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 15 thinks | cc |
| 13 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 15 thinks | obj |
| 14 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 15 thinks | nsubj |
| 15 | thinks | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 what | conj |
| 16 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 ask | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | present | Clever viewers | three questions | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent question=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | this | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | happen | past | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | think speech: other | present | someone | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot what=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:2.
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.
See the release 0.4.
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