Memes, clips and jokes about politicians, sentence 17
When a clip goes viral, news shows sometimes chase it, which can push more important stories off the screen.
Who acts: clip, news shows · What happens: go, chase, push · To what, where: clip, important stories, screen
This is a sentence of the lesson «Memes, clips and jokes about politicians» 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 (clip, news shows), 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 4 goes | mark |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 clip | det |
| 3 | clip | clip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 goes | nsubj |
| 4 | goes | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 chase | advcl |
| 5 | viral | viral | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 goes | xcomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 chase | punct |
| 7 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 shows | compound |
| 8 | shows | show | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 chase | nsubj |
| 9 | sometimes | sometimes | ADV | PronType=Ind | 10 chase | advmod |
| 10 | chase | chase | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 chase | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 push | punct |
| 13 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 push | nsubj |
| 14 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 push | aux |
| 15 | push | push | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 chase | advcl:relcl |
| 16 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 17 important | advmod |
| 17 | important | important | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 stories | amod |
| 18 | stories | story | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 push | obj |
| 19 | off | off | ADP | _ | 21 screen | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 screen | det |
| 21 | screen | screen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 push | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 chase | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | present | a clip | viral property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | chase | present | news shows | clip | sometimes property | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | |||
| 3 | push | can | important stories | the screen | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent story=Theme off screen=Trajectory |
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:013-memes-clips-and-jokes-about-politicians.lesson:17.
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): no change. 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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