Too-good-to-be-true offers, online scams and checking the news, sentence 19
A fact can be checked; an opinion is what someone thinks, and opinions should not be passed off as facts.
Who acts: opinion · What happens: check, be, think, not pass off · To what, where: fact, opinions
This is a sentence of the lesson «Too-good-to-be-true offers, online scams and checking the news» of the everyday 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 (opinion), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 fact | det |
| 2 | fact | fact | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 checked | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 checked | aux |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 checked | aux:pass |
| 5 | checked | check | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 thinks | punct |
| 7 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 opinion | det |
| 8 | opinion | opinion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 thinks | nsubj |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 what | cop |
| 10 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 opinion | nmod |
| 11 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 12 thinks | nsubj |
| 12 | thinks | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 checked | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 passed | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 passed | cc |
| 15 | opinions | opinion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 passed | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 passed | aux |
| 17 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 passed | advmod |
| 18 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 19 passed | aux:pass |
| 19 | passed | pass | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 checked | conj |
| 20 | off | off | ADP | _ | 19 passed | compound:prt |
| 21 | as | as | ADP | _ | 22 facts | case |
| 22 | facts | fact | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 passed | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 checked | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | check | can · passive | a fact | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 2 | is a | present | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | think speech: other | present | a opinion | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | not pass off | should · passive | opinions | as facts | vn spend_time-104 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Duration as fact=Attribute |
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:everyday:314-too-good-offers-scams-and-checking-news.lesson:19.
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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