Memes, clips and jokes about politicians, sentence 3
Laughing at what the powerful do can help keep them honest, and you can laugh at a leader and still like them.
Who acts: powerful, Laughing, you · What happens: laugh, do, help, keep, like · To what, where: People, leader
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 (powerful, Laughing, you), 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 | Laughing | laugh | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 help | csubj |
| 2 | at | at | ADP | _ | 3 what | case |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 1 Laughing | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 do | det |
| 5 | powerful | powerful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 do | nsubj |
| 6 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 what | acl:relcl |
| 7 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 help | aux |
| 8 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 help | xcomp |
| 10 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 keep | obj |
| 11 | honest | honest | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 keep | xcomp |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 laugh | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 laugh | cc |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 laugh | nsubj |
| 15 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 laugh | aux |
| 16 | laugh | laugh | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 help | conj |
| 17 | at | at | ADP | _ | 19 leader | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 leader | det |
| 19 | leader | leader | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 laugh | obl |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 like | cc |
| 21 | still | still | ADV | _ | 22 like | advmod |
| 22 | like | like | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 laugh | conj |
| 23 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 like | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 help | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- evaluate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- pos
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | laugh | gerund | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | do | present | powerful | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | help | can | Laughing | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | keep | infinitive | Laughing not said here | People | honest property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | |||
| 5 | laugh | can | you | a leader | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 6 | like | infinitive | you not said here | People | still | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot they=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:013-memes-clips-and-jokes-about-politicians.lesson:3.
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.
See the release 0.4.
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