How to check: who, how, who else, sentence 13

Sponsored content is an advert made to look like news, and the label "paid for by" tells you someone is selling something.

Who acts: Sponsored content, advert, label, someone · What happens: sponsor, be, make, look, pay, tell · To what, where: advert, label, you, something · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «How to check: who, how, who else» 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 (Sponsored content, advert, label, someone), 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	Sponsored	sponsor	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 content	amod
2	content	content	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 advert	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 advert	cop
4	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 advert	det
5	advert	advert	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 advert	acl
7	to	to	PART	_	8 look	mark
8	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 made	xcomp
9	like	like	ADP	_	10 news	case
10	news	news	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 look	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 tells	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 label	cc
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 label	det
14	label	label	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 tells	nsubj
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	16 paid	punct
16	paid	pay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 label	acl
17	for	for	ADP	_	16 paid	case
18	by	by	ADP	_	16 paid	case
19	"	"	PUNCT	_	16 paid	punct
20	tells	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 advert	conj
21	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	20 tells	iobj
22	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	24 selling	nsubj
23	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 selling	aux
24	selling	sell	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	20 tells	ccomp
25	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	24 selling	obj
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 advert	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	sponsor	participle					vn captain-29.8-1 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent
2	is a	present	Sponsored content	a advert			tree rules
3	make	participle		a advert not said here			tree rules
4	look	to-infinitive	a advert not said here			like news	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
5	pay in a quote	participle		the label not said here			vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
6	tell speech: assert	present	the label		you		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic
7	sell	present · progressive	someone	something			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=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:035-how-to-check-who-how-who-else.lesson:13.

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): R6-punct-agree ×3, R7-rel-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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