The forged signature and how it always ends, sentence 24
Forgery means signing someone else's name, or faking a paper, to make people believe it is real.
Who acts: Forgery, people, someone · What happens: mean, sign, fake, make, believe, be · To what, where: name, paper · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «The forged signature and how it always ends» 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 (Forgery, people, someone), 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 | Forgery | forgery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 means | nsubj |
| 2 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | signing | sign | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 means | xcomp |
| 4 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 7 name | nmod:poss |
| 5 | else | else | ADV | _ | 4 someone | advmod |
| 6 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 4 someone | case |
| 7 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 signing | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 faking | punct |
| 9 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 10 faking | cc |
| 10 | faking | fake | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 signing | conj |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 paper | det |
| 12 | paper | paper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 faking | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 make | punct |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 make | mark |
| 15 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 faking | advcl |
| 16 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 believe | nsubj |
| 17 | believe | believe | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 make | xcomp |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 real | nsubj |
| 19 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 real | cop |
| 20 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 believe | ccomp |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 means | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | Forgery | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | sign not said to happen | gerund | Forgery not said here | someone's name | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent name=Destination | ||||
| 3 | fake | gerund | Forgery not said here | a paper | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent paper=Patient | ||||
| 4 | make | to-infinitive | Forgery not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | believe | infinitive | people | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 6 | is | present | forgery | real property | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | name | someone | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=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:429-the-forged-signature-and-how-it-always-ends.lesson:24.
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, R7-rel-agree ×2. 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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