Politicians and promises, as the news reports them, sentence 40
What politicians say in public is often recorded, so «I never said that» can be checked.
Who acts: politicians, people · What happens: say, record, not say, check · To what, where: public, that · 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 (politicians, 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 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 3 say | obj |
| 2 | politicians | politician | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 say | nsubj |
| 3 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 recorded | csubj:pass |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 public | case |
| 5 | public | public | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 say | obl |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 recorded | aux:pass |
| 7 | often | often | ADV | _ | 8 recorded | advmod |
| 8 | recorded | record | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 recorded | punct |
| 10 | so | so | ADV | _ | 19 checked | advmod |
| 11 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 14 said | punct |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 said | nsubj |
| 13 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 14 said | advmod |
| 14 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 checked | csubj:pass |
| 15 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Dem | 14 said | obj |
| 16 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 14 said | punct |
| 17 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 checked | aux |
| 18 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 19 checked | aux:pass |
| 19 | checked | check | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 recorded | advcl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 recorded | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | politicians | public | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent what=Theme in public=Manner | ||||
| 2 | record | present · passive | often property | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V» | |||||
| 3 | not say speech: assert in a quote | past | people | that | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent that=Topic | ||||
| 4 | check | can · passive | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP» |
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:40.
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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