Charts, number ones and famous musicians as public record, sentence 7

Michael Jackson's album Thriller, from 1982, is widely reported as the best-selling album of all time, usually estimated at around 70 million copies, not a billion.

What happens: report, sell, estimate · To what, where: album, million copies

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: 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	Michael	Michael	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 album	nmod:poss
2	Jackson	Jackson	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Michael	flat
3	's	's	PART	_	1 Michael	case
4	album	album	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 reported	nsubj:pass
5	Thriller	thriller	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 album	appos
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 1982	punct
7	from	from	ADP	_	8 1982	case
8	1982	1982	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	4 album	nmod:unmarked
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 Thriller	punct
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 reported	aux:pass
11	widely	widely	ADV	_	12 reported	advmod
12	reported	report	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
13	as	as	ADP	_	18 album	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 album	det
15	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	18 album	amod
16	-	-	PUNCT	_	15 best	punct
17	selling	sell	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	18 album	amod
18	album	album	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 reported	obl
19	of	of	ADP	_	21 time	case
20	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	21 time	det
21	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 album	nmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 estimated	punct
23	usually	usually	ADV	_	24 estimated	advmod
24	estimated	estimate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 album	conj
25	at	at	ADP	_	29 copies	case
26	around	around	ADV	_	28 million	advmod
27	70	70	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	28 million	compound
28	million	million	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	29 copies	nummod
29	copies	copy	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 estimated	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 billion	punct
31	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	33 billion	advmod
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 billion	det
33	billion	billion	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	29 copies	appos
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 reported	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: neg
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	report	present · passive	Michael's album from 1982		as the best selling album of all time; widely property	vn characterize-29.2-1-2 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Theme as album=Attribute
2	sell	gerund				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent
3	estimate	participle		million copies	usually property	vn estimate-34.2-1 «NP V NP PP.value»: agent=Agent at copy=Value

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:7.

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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