How to check: who, how, who else, sentence 9
Lateral reading means checking a website by opening a new tab and reading what others say about it.
Who acts: Lateral reading, others · What happens: mean, check, open, read, say · To what, where: website, new tab · 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 (Lateral reading, others), 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 | Lateral | lateral | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 reading | amod |
| 2 | reading | reading | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 means | nsubj |
| 3 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | checking | check | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 means | xcomp |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 website | det |
| 6 | website | website | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 checking | obj |
| 7 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 8 opening | mark |
| 8 | opening | open | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 checking | advcl |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 tab | det |
| 10 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 tab | amod |
| 11 | tab | tab | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 opening | obj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 reading | cc |
| 13 | reading | read | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 opening | conj |
| 14 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 16 say | obj |
| 15 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 say | nsubj |
| 16 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 reading | ccomp |
| 17 | about | about | ADP | _ | 18 it | case |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 say | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 means | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | Lateral reading | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | check not said to happen | gerund | Lateral reading not said here | a website | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent website=Theme | ||||
| 3 | open | gerund | Lateral reading not said here | a new tab | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location tab=Theme | ||||
| 4 | read | gerund | Lateral reading not said here | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | say speech: assert | present | others | about reading | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic |
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:9.
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, 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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