Breakfast and chat shows: celebrity gossip on the sofa, sentence 0

Breakfast shows and chat shows feel like friends chatting on a comfy sofa, but they are a job: the presenters are paid, the chat is planned, a voice in their earpiece tells them what comes next, and the guests usually come to sell a film, a book or a song.

Who acts: Breakfast shows, friends, shows, voice, guests · What happens: feel, chat, be, pay, plan, tell · To what, where: comfy sofa, job, presenters, chat, film · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Breakfast and chat shows: celebrity gossip on the sofa» 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 (Breakfast shows, friends, shows, voice), 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	Breakfast	breakfast	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 shows	compound
2	shows	show	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 feel	nsubj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 shows	cc
4	chat	chat	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 shows	compound
5	shows	show	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 shows	conj
6	feel	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	like	like	ADP	_	8 friends	case
8	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 feel	obl
9	chatting	chat	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 friends	acl
10	on	on	ADP	_	13 sofa	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 sofa	det
12	comfy	comfy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 sofa	amod
13	sofa	sofa	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 chatting	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 job	punct
15	but	but	CCONJ	_	19 job	cc
16	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 job	nsubj
17	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 job	cop
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 job	det
19	job	job	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 feel	conj
20	:	:	PUNCT	_	24 paid	punct
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 presenters	det
22	presenters	presenter	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 paid	nsubj:pass
23	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 paid	aux:pass
24	paid	pay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 job	parataxis
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 planned	punct
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 chat	det
27	chat	chat	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 planned	nsubj:pass
28	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 planned	aux:pass
29	planned	plan	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 paid	conj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 tells	punct
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 voice	det
32	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 tells	nsubj
33	in	in	ADP	_	35 earpiece	case
34	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 earpiece	nmod:poss
35	earpiece	earpiece	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 voice	nmod
36	tells	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 paid	conj
37	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 tells	obj
38	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	39 comes	nsubj
39	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	36 tells	ccomp
40	next	next	ADV	_	39 comes	advmod
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 come	punct
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	46 come	cc
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 guests	det
44	guests	guest	NOUN	Number=Plur	46 come	nsubj
45	usually	usually	ADV	_	46 come	advmod
46	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 feel	parataxis
47	to	to	PART	_	48 sell	mark
48	sell	sell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	46 come	xcomp
49	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	50 film	det
50	film	film	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 sell	obj
51	,	,	PUNCT	_	53 book	punct
52	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	53 book	det
53	book	book	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 film	conj
54	or	or	CCONJ	_	56 song	cc
55	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	56 song	det
56	song	song	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 film	conj
57	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 feel	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	feel	present	Breakfast shows and chat shows				like friends	vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V S»: agent=Agent like friend=Theme
2	chat speech: other	gerund	friends not said here			a comfy sofa		vn chit_chat-37.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is a	present	shows = show	a job				tree rules
4	pay	present · passive		the presenters				vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Asset
5	plan	present · passive		the chat				vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic
6	tell speech: assert	present	a voice in presenters's earpiece		presenters = presenter			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic
7	come	present					next property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	come	present	the guests				usually property	tree rules
9	sell	to-infinitive	the guests not said here	a film and a book or a song				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent film=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:053-breakfast-and-chat-shows-celebrity-gossip-on-the-sofa.lesson:0.

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, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×2. 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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