Breakfast and chat shows: celebrity gossip on the sofa, sentence 12

Asking someone about their weight or guessing that someone is pregnant from a photo is unkind; bodies are their own business, famous or not.

Who acts: someone, Asking, bodies · What happens: ask, guess, be · To what, where: someone, photo, own business · 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 (someone, Asking, bodies), 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	Asking	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	16 unkind	csubj
2	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	1 Asking	obj
3	about	about	ADP	_	5 weight	case
4	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 weight	nmod:poss
5	weight	weight	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Asking	obl
6	or	or	CCONJ	_	7 guessing	cc
7	guessing	guess	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	1 Asking	conj
8	that	that	SCONJ	_	11 pregnant	mark
9	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	11 pregnant	nsubj
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 pregnant	cop
11	pregnant	pregnant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 guessing	ccomp
12	from	from	ADP	_	14 photo	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 photo	det
14	photo	photo	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 pregnant	obl
15	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 unkind	cop
16	unkind	unkind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 business	punct
18	bodies	body	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 business	nsubj
19	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 business	cop
20	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 business	nmod:poss
21	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 business	amod
22	business	business	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 unkind	parataxis
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 famous	punct
24	famous	famous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 business	amod
25	or	or	CCONJ	_	26 not	cc
26	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	24 famous	conj
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 unkind	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	gerund			someone		about photos's weight	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP PP.topic»: agent=Agent someone=Recipient about weight=Topic
2	guess	gerund						vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	is	present	someone			a photo	pregnant property	tree rules
4	is	present	Asking				unkind property	tree rules
5	is a	present	bodies	photos's own business				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:053-breakfast-and-chat-shows-celebrity-gossip-on-the-sofa.lesson:12.

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): 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.

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