Politicians and promises, as the news reports them, sentence 33

Two people can use the same numbers to say opposite things by choosing different years or different parts.

Who acts: Two people · What happens: use, say, choose · To what, where: same numbers, opposite things · 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 (Two people), 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	Two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 people	nummod
2	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 use	nsubj
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 use	aux
4	use	use	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 numbers	det
6	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 numbers	amod
7	numbers	number	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 use	obj
8	to	to	PART	_	9 say	mark
9	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 use	advcl
10	opposite	opposite	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 things	amod
11	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 say	obj
12	by	by	SCONJ	_	13 choosing	mark
13	choosing	choose	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 say	advcl
14	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 years	amod
15	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 choosing	obj
16	or	or	CCONJ	_	18 parts	cc
17	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 parts	amod
18	parts	part	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 years	conj
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 use	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	use	can	Two people	the same numbers		vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent number=Patient
2	say speech: assert	to-infinitive	Two people not said here	opposite things		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent thing=Topic
3	choose	gerund	Two people not said here		year	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: 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:33.

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): no change. 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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