Politicians and promises, as the news reports them, sentence 5

He said: «You can check three things: what she promised, what she did, and what she says happened.

Who acts: dad, You, Liam · What happens: say, check, promise, do, happen · To what, where: three 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 (dad, You, Liam), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 said	nsubj
2	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	:	:	PUNCT	_	7 check	punct
4	«	«	PUNCT	_	7 check	punct
5	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 check	nsubj
6	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 check	aux
7	check	check	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 said	ccomp
8	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 things	nummod
9	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 check	obj
10	:	:	PUNCT	_	11 what	punct
11	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 check	advcl
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 promised	nsubj
13	promised	promise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 what	acl:relcl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 what	punct
15	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 check	conj
16	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 did	nsubj
17	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 what	acl:relcl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 what	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 what	cc
20	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 check	conj
21	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 says	nsubj
22	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 what	acl:relcl
23	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 says	ccomp
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 said	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	dad		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	check in a quote	can	You	three things	vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Theme
3	promise speech: promise in a quote	past	Liam		vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	do in a quote	past	Liam		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	say speech: assert in a quote	present	Liam		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	happen in a quote	past			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:5.

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 ×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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