Politicians and promises, as the news reports them, sentence 32

When a promise is broken, people often disagree about whether it was a lie or a plan that failed; both happen.

Who acts: people, election, plan, both · What happens: break, disagree, be, fail, happen · To what, where: promise, lie

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 (people, election, plan, both), 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	When	when	SCONJ	_	5 broken	mark
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 promise	det
3	promise	promise	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 broken	nsubj:pass
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 broken	aux:pass
5	broken	break	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 disagree	advcl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 disagree	punct
7	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 disagree	nsubj
8	often	often	ADV	_	9 disagree	advmod
9	disagree	disagree	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	about	about	SCONJ	_	15 lie	mark
11	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	15 lie	mark
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 lie	nsubj
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 lie	cop
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 lie	det
15	lie	lie	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 disagree	advcl
16	or	or	CCONJ	_	18 plan	cc
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 plan	det
18	plan	plan	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 lie	conj
19	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 failed	nsubj
20	failed	fail	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 plan	acl:relcl
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 happen	punct
22	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	23 happen	nsubj
23	happen	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 disagree	parataxis
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 disagree	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed act=assert

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	break	present · passive		a promise		vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
2	disagree	present	people		often property	vn correspond-36.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is a	past	election	a lie or a plan		tree rules
4	fail	past	a plan			vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	happen	present	both			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:32.

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 ×4. 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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