Politicians and promises, as the news reports them, sentence 11
Noah's grandma watched a politician get a yes-or-no question and talk for two minutes about something else.
Who acts: grandma, politician · What happens: watch, get, talk · To what, where: politician, question
This is a sentence of the lesson «Politicians and promises, as the news reports them» 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 (grandma, politician), 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 | Noah | Noah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 grandma | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Noah | case |
| 3 | grandma | grandma | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 watched | nsubj |
| 4 | watched | watch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 politician | det |
| 6 | politician | politician | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 watched | obj |
| 7 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 watched | xcomp |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 question | det |
| 9 | yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 14 question | discourse |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 yes | punct |
| 11 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 14 question | cc |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 question | punct |
| 13 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 14 question | det |
| 14 | question | question | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 get | obj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 talk | cc |
| 16 | talk | talk | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 get | conj |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 minutes | case |
| 18 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 19 minutes | nummod |
| 19 | minutes | minute | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 talk | obl:unmarked |
| 20 | about | about | ADP | _ | 21 something | case |
| 21 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 16 talk | obl |
| 22 | else | else | ADV | _ | 21 something | advmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 watched | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | watch | past | Noah's grandma | a politician | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | get | infinitive | a politician not said here | a question | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer question=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | talk | infinitive | a politician not said here | minute | about something | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about something=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:everyday:442-politicians-and-promises-as-the-news-reports-them.lesson:11.
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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