Charts, number ones and famous musicians as public record, sentence 2

Picture Grandad slamming the table about the Beatles: that they sold hundreds of millions of records is a fact you can check; that they were the best is his taste, and other people argue for other bands.

Who acts: Picture Grandad, counts, you, other people · What happens: slam, sell, be, check, argue · To what, where: table, hundreds, fact, best taste

This is a sentence of the lesson «Charts, number ones and famous musicians as public record» of the arts 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 (Picture Grandad, counts, you, other people), 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	Picture	picture	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Grandad	compound
2	Grandad	grandad	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 fact	dislocated
3	slamming	slam	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 Grandad	acl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 table	det
5	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 slamming	obj
6	about	about	ADP	_	8 Beatles	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Beatles	det
8	Beatles	Beatles	PROPN	Number=Plur	3 slamming	obl
9	:	:	PUNCT	_	12 sold	punct
10	that	that	SCONJ	_	12 sold	mark
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 sold	nsubj
12	sold	sell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 fact	csubj
13	hundreds	hundred	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 sold	obj
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 millions	case
15	millions	million	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 hundreds	nmod
16	of	of	ADP	_	17 records	case
17	records	record	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 millions	nmod
18	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 fact	cop
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 fact	det
20	fact	fact	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
21	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	23 check	nsubj
22	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 check	aux
23	check	check	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 fact	acl:relcl
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 fact	punct
25	that	that	SCONJ	_	32 taste	mark
26	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 taste	nsubj
27	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 taste	cop
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 best	det
29	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	32 taste	amod
30	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 taste	cop
31	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 taste	nmod:poss
32	taste	taste	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 fact	parataxis
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 argue	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 argue	cc
35	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 people	amod
36	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 argue	nsubj
37	argue	argue	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 taste	parataxis
38	for	for	ADP	_	40 bands	case
39	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 bands	amod
40	bands	band	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 argue	obl
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Picture	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	slam	gerund	Picture Grandad not said here	the table	about the Beatles	vn spank-18.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent table=Patient about beatles=Location
2	sell	past	counts = count	hundreds of millions of records		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hundred=Theme
3	is a	present		a fact	Picture Grandad dislocated	tree rules
4	check	can	you	a fact not said here		vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fact=Theme
5	is a	past	counts = count	record's best taste		tree rules
6	argue speech: disagree	present	other people		for other bands	vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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:arts:006-charts-number-ones-and-famous-musicians-as-public-record.lesson:2.

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): R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-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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