US elections and the president, as reported, sentence 21
Words like "saving the country" and "wrecking it" are opinions; a fact can be checked and shown true or false.
Who acts: Words · What happens: save, wreck, be, check, show · To what, where: country, opinions, fact
This is a sentence of the lesson «US elections and the president, as reported» 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 (Words), 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 | Words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 opinions | nsubj |
| 2 | like | like | ADP | _ | 4 saving | mark |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 saving | punct |
| 4 | saving | save | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 1 Words | acl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 country | det |
| 6 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 saving | obj |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 saving | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 wrecking | cc |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 wrecking | punct |
| 10 | wrecking | wreck | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 saving | conj |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 wrecking | obj |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 wrecking | punct |
| 13 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 opinions | cop |
| 14 | opinions | opinion | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 opinions | punct |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 fact | det |
| 17 | fact | fact | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 checked | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 checked | aux |
| 19 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 20 checked | aux:pass |
| 20 | checked | check | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 opinions | parataxis |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 shown | cc |
| 22 | shown | show | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 checked | conj |
| 23 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 shown | xcomp |
| 24 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 25 false | cc |
| 25 | false | false | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 true | conj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 opinions | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | save in a quote | gerund | Words not said here | the country | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent country=Theme | ||||
| 2 | wreck in a quote | gerund | Words not said here | country | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | ||||
| 3 | is a | present | Words | opinions | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | check | can · passive | a fact | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 5 | show | participle | true property | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «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:016-us-elections-and-the-president-as-reported.lesson:21.
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): R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-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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