Olympiad: what is really going on ★★★, sentence 17
«Sources close to» someone are people a newspaper does not name, so their claims cannot be checked by the reader.
Who acts: Sources, newspaper, reader · What happens: be, not name, not check, claim · To what, where: people, claims
This is a sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: what is really going on ★★★» 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 (Sources, newspaper, reader), 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 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 8 people | punct |
| 2 | Sources | source | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 people | nsubj |
| 3 | close | close | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 Sources | amod |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 someone | case |
| 5 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 8 people | punct |
| 6 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 3 close | obl |
| 7 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 people | cop |
| 8 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 newspaper | det |
| 10 | newspaper | newspaper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 name | nsubj |
| 11 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 name | aux |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 name | advmod |
| 13 | name | name | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 people | acl:relcl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 checked | punct |
| 15 | so | so | ADV | _ | 21 checked | advmod |
| 16 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 claims | nmod:poss |
| 17 | claims | claim | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 checked | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 checked | aux |
| 19 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 21 checked | advmod |
| 20 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 21 checked | aux:pass |
| 21 | checked | check | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 people | parataxis |
| 22 | by | by | ADP | _ | 24 reader | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 reader | det |
| 24 | reader | reader | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 checked | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 people | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Sources | people | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not name | present · do-support | a newspaper | people not said here | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Theme | ||||
| 3 | not check | can · passive | the reader | Sources's claims | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme | ||||
| 4 | claim | Sources = source | nom claim «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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:061-olympiad-what-is-really-going-on.lesson:17.
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, R8-pos-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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