Breakfast and chat shows: celebrity gossip on the sofa, sentence 15
Celebrity "feuds" may be real, exaggerated or even staged for publicity; fans who take sides do not know the stars at all.
Who acts: Celebrity, fans · What happens: be, exaggerate, stage, take, not know · To what, where: sides, stars, all
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 (Celebrity, fans), 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 | Celebrity | celebrity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 real | nsubj |
| 2 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 feuds | punct |
| 3 | feuds | feud | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Celebrity | appos |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 feuds | punct |
| 5 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 real | aux |
| 6 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 real | cop |
| 7 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 exaggerated | punct |
| 9 | exaggerated | exaggerate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 real | conj |
| 10 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 12 staged | cc |
| 11 | even | even | ADV | _ | 12 staged | advmod |
| 12 | staged | stage | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 real | conj |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 publicity | case |
| 14 | publicity | publicity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 staged | obl |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 know | punct |
| 16 | fans | fan | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 know | nsubj |
| 17 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 take | nsubj |
| 18 | take | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 fans | acl:relcl |
| 19 | sides | side | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 take | obj |
| 20 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 know | aux |
| 21 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 22 know | advmod |
| 22 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 real | parataxis |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 stars | det |
| 24 | stars | star | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 know | obj |
| 25 | at | at | ADP | _ | 26 all | case |
| 26 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 22 know | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 real | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | may | Celebrity | real property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | exaggerate | participle | Celebrity not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | stage | participle | Celebrity not said here | for publicity | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for publicity=Beneficiary | ||||
| 4 | take | present | fans | sides | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent side=Theme | ||||
| 5 | not know | present · do-support | fans | the stars | all | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer star=Stimulus |
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:15.
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 ×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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