The check that settles it, sentence 38
If big news is true, many trusted news places report it; if only one odd page does, it is probably fake.
Who acts: big news, many trusted news places, one odd page, page · What happens: be, trust, report, do · To what, where: memory
This is a sentence of the lesson «The check that settles it» 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 (big news, many trusted news places, one odd page, page), 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 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 news | amod |
| 3 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 true | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 true | cop |
| 5 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 report | advcl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 true | punct |
| 7 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 places | amod |
| 8 | trusted | trust | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 places | amod |
| 9 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 places | compound |
| 10 | places | place | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 report | nsubj |
| 11 | report | report | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 report | obj |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 fake | punct |
| 14 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 19 does | mark |
| 15 | only | only | ADV | _ | 16 one | advmod |
| 16 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 page | nummod |
| 17 | odd | odd | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 page | amod |
| 18 | page | page | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 does | nsubj |
| 19 | does | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 fake | advcl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 does | punct |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 fake | nsubj |
| 22 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 fake | cop |
| 23 | probably | probably | ADV | _ | 24 fake | advmod |
| 24 | fake | fake | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 report | parataxis |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 report | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=assert
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a condition, not said to happen | present | big news | true property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | trust | participle | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | report | present | many trusted news places | memory | vn prosecute-33.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | ||||
| 4 | do a condition, not said to happen | present | one odd page | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | is | present | page | fake, probably 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:451-the-check-that-settles-it.lesson:38.
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, 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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