Animals in the news: true stories, fakes and how to read them, sentence 3

Good questions for any animal story are: who first reported it, is there a photo from the real place and day, do scientists say the same, and do the numbers mean what the headline says?

Who acts: Good questions, photo, scientists, numbers, headline · What happens: be, report, say, mean · To what, where: school, same · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Animals in the news: true stories, fakes and how to read them» of the biology 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 (Good questions, photo, scientists, numbers), 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	Good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 questions	amod
2	questions	question	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 are	nsubj
3	for	for	ADP	_	6 story	case
4	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	6 story	det
5	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 story	compound
6	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 questions	nmod
7	are	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	:	:	PUNCT	_	7 are	punct
9	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 reported	nsubj
10	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	11 reported	advmod
11	reported	report	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 are	parataxis
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 reported	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 is	punct
14	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 reported	conj
15	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	14 is	expl
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 photo	det
17	photo	photo	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 is	nsubj
18	from	from	ADP	_	21 place	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 place	det
20	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 place	amod
21	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 photo	nmod
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 day	cc
23	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 place	conj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 say	punct
25	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 say	aux
26	scientists	scientist	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 say	nsubj
27	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 is	conj
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 same	det
29	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 say	obj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 mean	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 mean	cc
32	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	35 mean	aux
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 numbers	det
34	numbers	number	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 mean	nsubj
35	mean	mean	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 say	conj
36	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	39 says	obj
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 headline	det
38	headline	headline	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 says	nsubj
39	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	35 mean	ccomp
40	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 are	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	does	present	Good questions for any animal story				vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	report	past		school		first property	vn prosecute-33.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
3	be	present	a photo from the real place and day		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	say speech: assert	present · do-support	scientists	the same			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent same=Topic
5	mean	present · do-support	the numbers				vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	say speech: assert	present	the headline				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic

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:biology:296-animals-in-the-news-true-stories-fakes-and-how-to-read-them.lesson:3.

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 ×1, R6-punct-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.

See the release 0.4.

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