When the police come, sentence 28
A witness should say only what they really saw and heard, not guesses or what others said.
Who acts: witness, questions, others · What happens: say, see, hear · To what, where: guesses · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «When the police come» 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 (witness, questions, others), 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 witness | det |
| 2 | witness | witness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 say | nsubj |
| 3 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 say | aux |
| 4 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | only | only | ADV | _ | 6 what | advmod |
| 6 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 say | obj |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 saw | nsubj |
| 8 | really | really | ADV | _ | 9 saw | advmod |
| 9 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 what | acl:relcl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 heard | cc |
| 11 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 saw | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 guesses | punct |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 guesses | advmod |
| 14 | guesses | guess | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 heard | obj |
| 15 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 16 what | cc |
| 16 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 guesses | conj |
| 17 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 said | nsubj |
| 18 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 what | acl:relcl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 say | 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 | say speech: assert | should | a witness | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic | |||||
| 2 | see | past | questions = question | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | hear | past | questions = question not said here | guesses | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer guess=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | others | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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:everyday:384-when-the-police-come.lesson:28.
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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