The news: who makes it and how, sentence 12
Bias means leaning towards one side; a source is where information comes from.
Who acts: Bias, source · What happens: mean, lean, be
This is a sentence of the lesson «The news: who makes it and how» of the politics 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 (Bias, source), 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 | Bias | bias | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 means | nsubj |
| 2 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | leaning | lean | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 means | xcomp |
| 4 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 6 side | case |
| 5 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 side | nummod |
| 6 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 leaning | obl |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 comes | punct |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 source | det |
| 9 | source | source | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 comes | nsubj |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 comes | cop |
| 11 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 13 comes | advmod |
| 12 | information | information | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 comes | nsubj |
| 13 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 means | conj |
| 14 | from | from | ADP | _ | 13 comes | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 means | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | Bias | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | lean not said to happen | gerund | Bias not said here | towards one side | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | is | present | a source | come 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:politics:010-the-news-who-makes-it-and-how.lesson:12.
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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