Charts, number ones and famous musicians as public record, sentence 6
The Beatles are one of the best-selling music acts in history, with sales estimated in the hundreds of millions; whether they were "the best" is an opinion.
Who acts: Beatles · What happens: be, sell, estimate · To what, where: one, hundreds, opinion · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Beatles), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Beatles | det |
| 2 | Beatles | Beatles | PROPN | Number=Plur | 4 one | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 one | cop |
| 4 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 acts | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 acts | det |
| 7 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 11 acts | amod |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 selling | punct |
| 9 | selling | sell | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 acts | amod |
| 10 | music | music | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 acts | compound |
| 11 | acts | act | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 one | nmod |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 history | case |
| 13 | history | history | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 acts | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 estimated | punct |
| 15 | with | with | SCONJ | _ | 17 estimated | mark |
| 16 | sales | sale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 estimated | compound |
| 17 | estimated | estimate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 one | parataxis |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 hundreds | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 hundreds | det |
| 20 | hundreds | hundred | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 estimated | obl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 millions | case |
| 22 | millions | million | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 hundreds | nmod |
| 23 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 33 opinion | punct |
| 24 | whether | whether | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 29 best | mark |
| 25 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 best | nsubj |
| 26 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 best | cop |
| 27 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 29 best | punct |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 best | det |
| 29 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 33 opinion | csubj |
| 30 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 29 best | punct |
| 31 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 33 opinion | cop |
| 32 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 opinion | det |
| 33 | opinion | opinion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 one | parataxis |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 one | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the Beatles | one | of the best selling music acts in history | tree rules | |||
| 2 | sell | gerund | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | estimate | participle | the hundreds of millions | vn estimate-34.2-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is in a quote | past | Beatles | good property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | is a | present | a opinion | 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:arts:006-charts-number-ones-and-famous-musicians-as-public-record.lesson:6.
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): 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.
See the release 0.4.
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