The news: who makes it and how, sentence 14
A spokesperson speaks officially for a group; an anonymous source gives information but does not want their name used, so reporters should check what they say carefully.
Who acts: spokesperson, anonymous source, name, reporters · What happens: speak, give, not want, use, check, say · To what, where: information, name · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (spokesperson, anonymous source, name, reporters), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 spokesperson | det |
| 2 | spokesperson | spokesperson | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 speaks | nsubj |
| 3 | speaks | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | officially | officially | ADV | _ | 3 speaks | advmod |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 group | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 group | det |
| 7 | group | group | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 speaks | obl |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 gives | punct |
| 9 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 source | det |
| 10 | anonymous | anonymous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 source | amod |
| 11 | source | source | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 gives | nsubj |
| 12 | gives | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 speaks | parataxis |
| 13 | information | information | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 gives | obj |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 want | cc |
| 15 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 want | aux |
| 16 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 want | advmod |
| 17 | want | want | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 gives | conj |
| 18 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 name | nmod:poss |
| 19 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 want | obj |
| 20 | used | use | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 want | xcomp |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 check | punct |
| 22 | so | so | ADV | _ | 25 check | advmod |
| 23 | reporters | reporter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 check | nsubj |
| 24 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 check | aux |
| 25 | check | check | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 speaks | parataxis |
| 26 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 28 say | obj |
| 27 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 say | nsubj |
| 28 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 check | ccomp |
| 29 | carefully | carefully | ADV | _ | 28 say | advmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 speaks | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | speak speech: other | present | a spokesperson | for a group; officially property | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | give | present | a anonymous source | information | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent information=Theme | ||||
| 3 | not want | present · do-support | a anonymous source not said here | spokesperson's name | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | use not said to happen | participle | spokesperson's name not said here | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | check | should | reporters | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | say speech: assert | present | reporters = reporter | carefully property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic | ||||
| 7 | name | spokesperson | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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:14.
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. 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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