Politicians and promises, as the news reports them, sentence 31

A promise made before an election can be checked afterwards: what was promised, what was done, and what the person says happened.

Who acts: person · What happens: make, check, promise, say, happen · To what, where: promise · 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 (person), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 promise	det
2	promise	promise	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 checked	nsubj:pass
3	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 promise	acl
4	before	before	ADP	_	6 election	case
5	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 election	det
6	election	election	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 made	obl
7	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 checked	aux
8	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 checked	aux:pass
9	checked	check	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
10	afterwards	afterward	ADV	_	9 checked	advmod
11	:	:	PUNCT	_	9 checked	punct
12	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	14 promised	nsubj:pass
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 promised	aux:pass
14	promised	promise	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 checked	parataxis
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 done	punct
16	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	18 done	nsubj
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 done	aux:pass
18	done	done	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 promised	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 happened	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 happened	cc
21	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	25 happened	nsubj
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 person	det
23	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 says	nsubj
24	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 what	acl:relcl
25	happened	happen	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	14 promised	conj
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 checked	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	make	participle		a promise not said here	before a election		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset
2	check	can · passive		a promise		afterward property	vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
3	promise speech: promise	past · passive					vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: subject=Theme
4	say speech: assert	present	the person				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
5	happen	participle					vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=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:31.

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. 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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