Politicians and promises, as the news reports them, sentence 18
They checked — no real news site had reported it — and the uncle deleted it, a bit red-faced.
Who acts: tricks, real news site, uncle · What happens: check, report, delete · To what, where: mouth
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 (tricks, real news site, uncle), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 checked | nsubj |
| 2 | checked | check | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 reported | punct |
| 4 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 7 site | det |
| 5 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 site | amod |
| 6 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 site | compound |
| 7 | site | site | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 reported | nsubj |
| 8 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 reported | aux |
| 9 | reported | report | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 2 checked | parataxis |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 reported | obj |
| 11 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 reported | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 deleted | cc |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 uncle | det |
| 14 | uncle | uncle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 deleted | nsubj |
| 15 | deleted | delete | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 checked | conj |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 deleted | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 faced | punct |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 bit | det |
| 19 | bit | bit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 faced | obl:unmarked |
| 20 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 faced | amod |
| 21 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 red | punct |
| 22 | faced | faced | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 deleted | advcl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 checked | 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 | check | past | tricks = trick | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | report | past · perfect | no real news site | mouth | vn prosecute-33.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | ||||
| 3 | delete | past | the uncle | mouth | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
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:18.
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): 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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