Politicians and promises, as the news reports them, sentence 42
«All politicians are liars» is an exaggeration; some lie, some don't, and many do a mix.
Who acts: politicians, liars, some, many · What happens: be, lie, not do, do · To what, where: liars, exaggeration, mix
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, liars, some, many), 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 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 5 liars | punct |
| 2 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 politicians | det |
| 3 | politicians | politician | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 liars | nsubj |
| 4 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 liars | cop |
| 5 | liars | liar | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 exaggeration | nsubj |
| 6 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 5 liars | punct |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 exaggeration | cop |
| 8 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 exaggeration | det |
| 9 | exaggeration | exaggeration | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 lie | punct |
| 11 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 12 lie | nsubj |
| 12 | lie | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 exaggeration | parataxis |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 do | punct |
| 14 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 15 do | nsubj |
| 15 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 exaggeration | conj |
| 16 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 do | advmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 do | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 do | cc |
| 19 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 do | nsubj |
| 20 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 exaggeration | conj |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 mix | det |
| 22 | mix | mix | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 do | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 exaggeration | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | all politicians | liars | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | liars | a exaggeration | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | lie | present | some | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | not do | present | some | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | do | present | many | a mix | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mix=Eventuality |
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:42.
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): R2-punct-next ×3, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-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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