Grandma and Uncle on opposite sides: staying friends, sentence 15

People of any age can believe false things they see online; correcting someone in front of others can embarrass them, and embarrassed people often dig in.

Who acts: People, correcting, embarrassed people · What happens: believe, see, correct, embarrass, dig in · To what, where: false things, someone, front, People

This is a sentence of the lesson «Grandma and Uncle on opposite sides: staying friends» 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 (People, correcting, embarrassed people), 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	People	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 believe	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	4 age	case
3	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	4 age	det
4	age	age	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 People	nmod
5	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 believe	aux
6	believe	believe	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	false	false	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 things	amod
8	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 believe	obj
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 see	nsubj
10	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 things	acl:relcl
11	online	online	ADV	_	10 see	advmod
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 embarrass	punct
13	correcting	correct	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	20 embarrass	csubj
14	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	13 correcting	obj
15	in	in	ADP	_	16 front	case
16	front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 correcting	obl
17	of	of	ADP	_	18 others	case
18	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 front	nmod
19	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 embarrass	aux
20	embarrass	embarrass	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 believe	parataxis
21	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 embarrass	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 dig	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 dig	cc
24	embarrassed	embarrassed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 people	amod
25	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 dig	nsubj
26	often	often	ADV	_	27 dig	advmod
27	dig	dig	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 believe	conj
28	in	in	ADV	_	27 dig	advmod
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 believe	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	believe	can	People of any age	false things			vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer thing=Stimulus
2	see	present	People	false things not said here		online property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer thing=Stimulus
3	correct speech: disagree	gerund		someone	front of others		vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent someone=Patient
4	embarrass	can	correcting	People			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus they=Experiencer
5	dig in	present	embarrassed people			often property	vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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:015-grandma-and-uncle-on-opposite-sides-staying-friends.lesson:15.

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): R2-punct-next ×1, 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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