Breakfast and chat shows: celebrity gossip on the sofa, sentence 16

A famous person crying on TV is a real person in pain; asking how you would feel if your sad moment were shown to millions is a good test.

Who acts: famous person, you, asking · What happens: cry, be, ask, feel, show · To what, where: TV, real person, pain, sad moment, millions, good test · 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 (famous person, you, asking), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 person	det
2	famous	famous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 person	amod
3	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 person	nsubj
4	crying	cry	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 person	acl
5	on	on	ADP	_	6 TV	case
6	TV	TV	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 crying	obl
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 person	cop
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 person	det
9	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 person	amod
10	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
11	in	in	ADP	_	12 pain	case
12	pain	pain	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 person	nmod
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	10 person	punct
14	asking	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	30 test	csubj
15	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	18 feel	advmod
16	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	18 feel	nsubj
17	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 feel	aux
18	feel	feel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 asking	ccomp
19	if	if	SCONJ	_	24 shown	mark
20	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 moment	nmod:poss
21	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 moment	amod
22	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 shown	nsubj:pass
23	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 shown	aux:pass
24	shown	show	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 feel	advcl
25	to	to	ADP	_	26 millions	case
26	millions	million	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 shown	obl
27	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 test	cop
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 test	det
29	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 test	amod
30	test	test	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 person	conj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 person	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	cry speech: express	gerund	a famous person not said here			TV	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on tv=Location
2	is a	present	a famous person	a real person and a good test		pain	tree rules
3	ask speech: ask	gerund					vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	feel	would	you				vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
5	show a condition, not said to happen	past · passive		your sad moment	millions		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Topic to million=Recipient
6	is a	present	asking	a good test			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:16.

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): no change. 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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