Breakfast and chat shows: celebrity gossip on the sofa, sentence 22

Footballers and other stars are trained to say safe, boring things, because one wrong word can become a headline.

Who acts: Footballers, one wrong word · What happens: train, say, become · To what, where: Footballers, safe boring things, headline · 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 (Footballers, one wrong word), 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	Footballers	footballer	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 trained	nsubj:pass
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 stars	cc
3	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 stars	amod
4	stars	star	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Footballers	conj
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 trained	aux:pass
6	trained	train	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 say	mark
8	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 trained	xcomp
9	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 things	amod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 things	punct
11	boring	boring	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 things	amod
12	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 say	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 become	punct
14	because	because	SCONJ	_	19 become	mark
15	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 word	nummod
16	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 word	amod
17	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 become	nsubj
18	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 become	aux
19	become	become	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 say	advcl
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 headline	det
21	headline	headline	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 become	xcomp
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 trained	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	train	present · passive		Footballers and other stars	vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP to be NP»: subject=Theme clause=Attribute
2	say speech: assert	to-infinitive	Footballers and other stars not said here	safe boring things	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent thing=Topic
3	become	can	one wrong word	a headline	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: 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:053-breakfast-and-chat-shows-celebrity-gossip-on-the-sofa.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): 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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