Dad shouting at the TV: big feelings about politics, sentence 12
News about prices rising for the whole country, called inflation or the cost of living, does not mean a family is in danger; a grown-up at home knows what is really happening.
Who acts: prices, whole country, News, family, grown · What happens: rise, call, not mean, be, know, happen · To what, where: News, inflation, danger, home, living · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Dad shouting at the TV: big feelings about politics» 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 (prices, whole country, News, family), 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 | News | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 mean | nsubj |
| 2 | about | about | SCONJ | _ | 4 rising | mark |
| 3 | prices | price | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 rising | nsubj |
| 4 | rising | rise | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 1 News | acl |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 country | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 country | det |
| 7 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 country | amod |
| 8 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 rising | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 inflation | punct |
| 10 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 country | acl |
| 11 | inflation | inflation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 called | xcomp |
| 12 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 14 cost | cc |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 cost | det |
| 14 | cost | cost | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 inflation | conj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 living | case |
| 16 | living | living | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 cost | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 News | punct |
| 18 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 mean | aux |
| 19 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 mean | advmod |
| 20 | mean | mean | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 family | det |
| 22 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 danger | nsubj |
| 23 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 danger | cop |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 danger | case |
| 25 | danger | danger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 mean | ccomp |
| 26 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 33 knows | punct |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 up | det |
| 28 | grown | grow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 knows | nsubj |
| 29 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 30 up | punct |
| 30 | up | up | ADP | _ | 28 grown | compound |
| 31 | at | at | ADP | _ | 32 home | case |
| 32 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 knows | obl |
| 33 | knows | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 mean | parataxis |
| 34 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 37 happening | nsubj |
| 35 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 37 happening | aux |
| 36 | really | really | ADV | _ | 37 happening | advmod |
| 37 | happening | happen | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 33 knows | ccomp |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 20 mean | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rise | gerund | prices | News not said here | for the whole country | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location news=Theme | |||
| 2 | call | participle | the whole country not said here | inflation or the cost of living | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | not mean | present · do-support | News | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is | present | a family | danger | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | know | present | grown | home | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 6 | happen | present · progressive | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 7 | cost | living | nom cost «possession transitive»: of=patient |
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:014-dad-shouting-at-the-tv-big-feelings-about-politics.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): R5-strong ×1, 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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