Propaganda and fake news, sentence 6
In the First World War, posters such as "Your country needs YOU" were used to get men to join the army.
Who acts: country, men · What happens: need, use, get, join · To what, where: YOU, posters, First World War, men, army
This is a sentence of the lesson «Propaganda and fake news» 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 (country, men), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 5 War | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 War | det |
| 3 | First | First | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 War | compound |
| 4 | World | World | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 War | compound |
| 5 | War | War | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 used | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 posters | punct |
| 7 | posters | poster | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 used | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 posters | amod |
| 9 | as | as | ADP | _ | 8 such | fixed |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 needs | punct |
| 11 | Your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 country | nmod:poss |
| 12 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 needs | nsubj |
| 13 | needs | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 posters | acl |
| 14 | YOU | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 needs | obj |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 needs | punct |
| 16 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 used | aux:pass |
| 17 | used | use | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 get | mark |
| 19 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 used | advcl |
| 20 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 get | obj |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 join | mark |
| 22 | join | join | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 get | xcomp |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 army | det |
| 24 | army | army | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 join | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 used | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | need in a quote | present | Your country | YOU | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot you=Theme | ||||
| 2 | use | past · passive | posters | the First World War | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 3 | get | to-infinitive | men | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | join | to-infinitive | men not said here | the army | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent army=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:031-propaganda-and-fake-news.lesson:6.
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. 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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