Who decides: kings, councils, republics and democracies, sentence 2

Ethan says the US has the oldest constitution in the world, and his friend asks «no cap?», meaning «no lie?».

Who acts: Ethan, US, friend · What happens: say, have, ask, mean · To what, where: oldest constitution, world, cap, lie · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Who decides: kings, councils, republics and democracies» of the history 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 (Ethan, US, friend), 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	Ethan	Ethan	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 says	nsubj
2	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 US	det
4	US	US	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 has	nsubj
5	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 says	ccomp
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 constitution	det
7	oldest	old	ADJ	Degree=Sup	8 constitution	amod
8	constitution	constitution	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 has	obj
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 world	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 world	det
11	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 constitution	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 asks	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 asks	cc
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 friend	nmod:poss
15	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 asks	nsubj
16	asks	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 says	conj
17	«	«	PUNCT	_	19 cap	punct
18	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	19 cap	det
19	cap	cap	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 asks	obj
20	?	?	PUNCT	_	19 cap	punct
21	»	»	PUNCT	_	19 cap	punct
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 meaning	punct
23	meaning	mean	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	16 asks	advcl
24	«	«	PUNCT	_	26 lie	punct
25	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	26 lie	det
26	lie	lie	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 meaning	obj
27	?	?	PUNCT	_	26 lie	punct
28	»	»	PUNCT	_	26 lie	punct
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 says	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Ethan			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	have	present	the US	the oldest constitution	the world	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent constitution=Patient
3	ask speech: ask	present	Ethan's friend	no cap		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent cap=Recipient
4	mean	gerund	Ethan's friend not said here	no lie		vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lie=Topic

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:history:067-who-decides-kings-councils-republics-and-democracies.lesson:2.

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, 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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