The news: who makes it and how, sentence 9
A news report tells what happened; an opinion piece or commentator says what someone thinks about it.
Who acts: news report, opinion piece, someone · What happens: tell, happen, say, think · 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 (news report, opinion piece, someone), 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 | 3 report | det |
| 2 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 report | compound |
| 3 | report | report | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 tells | nsubj |
| 4 | tells | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 6 happened | obj |
| 6 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 tells | ccomp |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 says | punct |
| 8 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 piece | det |
| 9 | opinion | opinion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 piece | compound |
| 10 | piece | piece | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 says | nsubj |
| 11 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 12 commentator | cc |
| 12 | commentator | commentator | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 piece | conj |
| 13 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 tells | parataxis |
| 14 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 16 thinks | obj |
| 15 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 16 thinks | nsubj |
| 16 | thinks | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 says | ccomp |
| 17 | about | about | ADP | _ | 18 it | case |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 thinks | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 tells | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | present | a news report | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | happen | past | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | present | a opinion piece or commentator | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | think speech: other | present | someone | about report | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot what=Theme |
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:9.
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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