Elections, crime, the weather, breaking news and news vs opinion, sentence 22

Climate change is a real, long-term problem; many scientists and governments are working on it, and small actions add up.

Who acts: Climate change, many scientists, small actions · What happens: be, work, add up · To what, where: real term problem

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 (Climate change, many scientists, small actions), 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	Climate	climate	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 change	compound
2	change	change	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 problem	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 problem	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 problem	det
5	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 problem	amod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 real	punct
7	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 term	amod
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 long	punct
9	term	term	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 problem	compound
10	problem	problem	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	10 problem	punct
12	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 scientists	amod
13	scientists	scientist	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 working	nsubj
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 governments	cc
15	governments	government	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 scientists	conj
16	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 working	aux
17	working	work	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 problem	parataxis
18	on	on	ADP	_	19 it	case
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 working	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 add	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 add	cc
22	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 actions	amod
23	actions	action	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 add	nsubj
24	add	add	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 working	conj
25	up	up	ADP	_	24 add	compound:prt
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 problem	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Climate change	a real term problem		tree rules
2	work	present · progressive	many scientists and governments		on change	vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on it=Theme
3	add up speech: assert	present	small actions			vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient

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:22.

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): R5-strong ×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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