Politicians and promises, as the news reports them, sentence 8

One evening in Auckland, Ella heard two politicians say opposite things about crime: one said it went up, the other said it went down.

Who acts: Ella, two politicians, one, news, other · What happens: hear, say, go up, go down · To what, where: 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 (Ella, two politicians, one, news), 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 evening	nummod
2	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 heard	obl:unmarked
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 Auckland	case
4	Auckland	Auckland	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 evening	nmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 Ella	punct
6	Ella	Ella	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 heard	nsubj
7	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 politicians	nummod
9	politicians	politician	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 say	nsubj
10	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 heard	ccomp
11	opposite	opposite	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 things	amod
12	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 say	obj
13	about	about	ADP	_	14 crime	case
14	crime	crime	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 things	nmod
15	:	:	PUNCT	_	17 said	punct
16	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 said	nsubj
17	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 said	advcl
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 went	nsubj
19	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 said	ccomp
20	up	up	ADP	_	19 went	compound:prt
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 said	punct
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 other	det
23	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 said	nsubj
24	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 say	ccomp
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 went	nsubj
26	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 said	ccomp
27	down	down	ADV	_	26 went	advmod
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 heard	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	hear	past	Ella		evening		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	say speech: assert	present	two politicians	opposite things		about crime	tree rules
3	say speech: assert	past	one				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	go up	past	news				vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
5	say speech: assert	past	the other				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	go down	past	news			down property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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:8.

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): R6-punct-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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