Politicians and promises, as the news reports them, sentence 25

One politician said «I never said that!» — and a reporter played a recording where he did.

Who acts: One politician, reporter · What happens: say, not say, play, do · To what, where: that, recording · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (One politician, reporter), 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 politician	nummod
2	politician	politician	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 said	nsubj
3	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	«	«	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct
5	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 said	nsubj
6	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	7 said	advmod
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 said	ccomp
8	that	that	PRON	PronType=Dem	7 said	obj
9	!	!	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct
10	»	»	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct
11	—	-	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 played	cc
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 reporter	det
14	reporter	reporter	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 played	nsubj
15	played	play	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 said	conj
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 recording	det
17	recording	recording	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 played	obj
18	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	20 did	advmod
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 did	nsubj
20	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 recording	acl:relcl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 said	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	say speech: express	past	One politician		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	not say speech: assert in a quote	past	One politician = politician	that	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent that=Topic
3	play	past	a reporter	a recording	vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent recording=Theme
4	do	past	reporter		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: 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:442-politicians-and-promises-as-the-news-reports-them.lesson:25.

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. 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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