How to check: who, how, who else, sentence 15
Some people say to trust official sources first, others say officials can be wrong too, so check the evidence as well.
Who acts: people, others, officials · What happens: say, trust, be, check · To what, where: official sources, evidence · 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 (people, others, officials), 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 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 2 people | det |
| 2 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 say | nsubj |
| 3 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 trust | mark |
| 5 | trust | trust | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 say | xcomp |
| 6 | official | official | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 sources | amod |
| 7 | sources | source | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 trust | obj |
| 8 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 5 trust | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 say | punct |
| 10 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 say | nsubj |
| 11 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 trust | parataxis |
| 12 | officials | official | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 wrong | nsubj |
| 13 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 wrong | aux |
| 14 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 15 wrong | cop |
| 15 | wrong | wrong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 say | ccomp |
| 16 | too | too | ADV | _ | 15 wrong | advmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 check | punct |
| 18 | so | so | ADV | _ | 19 check | advmod |
| 19 | check | check | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 say | conj |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 evidence | det |
| 21 | evidence | evidence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 check | obj |
| 22 | as | as | ADV | _ | 19 check | advmod |
| 23 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 22 as | fixed |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 say | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed polarity=none
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | some people | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | trust | to-infinitive | some people not said here | official sources | first property | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent source=Theme | |||
| 3 | say speech: assert | present | others | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is | can | officials | wrong property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | check | infinitive | others not said here | the evidence | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent evidence=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: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): 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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