Politicians and promises, as the news reports them, sentence 37

If something big is true, many trusted news sites report it; if only one strange account has it, be careful.

Who acts: something, many trusted news sites, one strange account, you · What happens: be, trust, report, have · To what, where: computer

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 (something, many trusted news sites, one strange account, you), 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	If	if	SCONJ	_	5 true	mark
2	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	5 true	nsubj
3	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 something	amod
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 true	cop
5	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 careful	advcl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 report	punct
7	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 sites	amod
8	trusted	trust	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 sites	amod
9	news	news	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 sites	compound
10	sites	site	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 report	nsubj
11	report	report	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 true	parataxis
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 report	obj
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 has	punct
14	if	if	SCONJ	_	19 has	mark
15	only	only	ADV	_	16 one	advmod
16	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	18 account	nummod
17	strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 account	amod
18	account	account	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 has	nsubj
19	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 report	conj
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 has	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 true	punct
22	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	23 careful	cop
23	careful	careful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	23 careful	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a condition, not said to happen	present	something		true property	tree rules
2	trust	participle				vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	report	present	many trusted news sites	computer		vn prosecute-33.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
4	have a condition, not said to happen	present	one strange account	computer		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
5	is	imperative	you not said here		careful property	tree rules

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:37.

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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