Politicians and promises, as the news reports them, sentence 20
Max in Sydney promised «no homework ever» if he became class captain.
Who acts: Max · What happens: promise, become · To what, where: homework, class captain
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 (Max), 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 | Max | Max | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 promised | nsubj |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 3 Sydney | case |
| 3 | Sydney | Sydney | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Max | nmod |
| 4 | promised | promise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 7 homework | punct |
| 6 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 7 homework | det |
| 7 | homework | homework | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 promised | obj |
| 8 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 4 promised | advmod |
| 9 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 4 promised | punct |
| 10 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 12 became | mark |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 became | nsubj |
| 12 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 promised | advcl |
| 13 | class | class | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 captain | compound |
| 14 | captain | captain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 became | xcomp |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 promised | 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 | promise speech: promise | past | Max in Sydney | no homework | ever | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent homework=Theme | |||
| 2 | become a condition, not said to happen | past | Max | class captain | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
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:20.
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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1. 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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