The best ever and shocking: adverts and headlines, sentence 16

«Brits SIZZLE as Britain hotter than the Sahara» might be true for one town against one place for one afternoon; the actual temperature and the weather service's advice are the facts.

Who acts: Brits, SIZZLE, actual temperature · What happens: sizzle, be · To what, where: facts

This is a sentence of the lesson «The best ever and shocking: adverts and headlines» of the language 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 (Brits, SIZZLE, actual temperature), 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	_	3 SIZZLE	punct
2	Brits	brit	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 SIZZLE	nsubj
3	SIZZLE	sizzle	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 true	nsubj
4	as	as	SCONJ	_	6 hotter	mark
5	Britain	Britain	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 hotter	nsubj
6	hotter	hot	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 SIZZLE	advcl
7	than	than	ADP	_	9 Sahara	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Sahara	det
9	Sahara	Sahara	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 hotter	obl
10	»	»	PUNCT	_	3 SIZZLE	punct
11	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 true	aux
12	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	13 true	cop
13	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
14	for	for	ADP	_	16 town	case
15	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 town	nummod
16	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 true	obl
17	against	against	ADP	_	19 place	case
18	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	19 place	nummod
19	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 town	nmod
20	for	for	ADP	_	22 afternoon	case
21	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	22 afternoon	nummod
22	afternoon	afternoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 place	nmod
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	35 facts	punct
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 temperature	det
25	actual	actual	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 temperature	amod
26	temperature	temperature	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 facts	nsubj
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 advice	cc
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 service	det
29	weather	weather	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 service	compound
30	service	service	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 advice	nmod:poss
31	's	's	PART	_	30 service	case
32	advice	advice	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 temperature	conj
33	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	35 facts	cop
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 facts	det
35	facts	fact	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 true	parataxis
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 true	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: neg
hedged: yes
teacher: changed hedge=1

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	sizzle in a quote		Brits			tree rules
2	is	might	SIZZLE		for one town against one place for one afternoon; true property	tree rules
3	is a	present	the actual temperature and the weather service's advice	the facts		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:language:047-the-best-ever-and-shocking-adverts-and-headlines.lesson:16.

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 ×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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