Checking practice: true, false and not sure yet, sentence 14
Videos can be slowed down, cut or changed to make someone look bad, and it was reported that slowed-down clips of real politicians were shared this way.
Who acts: someone · What happens: slow down, cut, change, make, look, report · To what, where: Videos, someone, research, slowed clips
This is a sentence of the lesson «Checking practice: true, false and not sure yet» 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 (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 | Videos | video | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 slowed | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 slowed | aux |
| 3 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 4 slowed | aux:pass |
| 4 | slowed | slow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | down | down | ADP | _ | 4 slowed | compound:prt |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 cut | punct |
| 7 | cut | cut | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 slowed | conj |
| 8 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 9 changed | cc |
| 9 | changed | change | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 slowed | conj |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 make | mark |
| 11 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 changed | xcomp |
| 12 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 11 make | obj |
| 13 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 make | xcomp |
| 14 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 look | xcomp |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 reported | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 reported | cc |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 reported | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 reported | aux:pass |
| 19 | reported | report | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 slowed | conj |
| 20 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 29 shared | mark |
| 21 | slowed | slowed | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 clips | amod |
| 22 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 21 slowed | punct |
| 23 | down | down | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 slowed | compound |
| 24 | clips | clip | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 shared | nsubj |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 politicians | case |
| 26 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 politicians | amod |
| 27 | politicians | politician | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 clips | nmod |
| 28 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 shared | aux:pass |
| 29 | shared | share | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 reported | ccomp |
| 30 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 31 way | det |
| 31 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 shared | obl:unmarked |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 slowed | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | slow down | can · passive | Videos | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 2 | cut | participle | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 3 | change | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | make | to-infinitive | someone | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | look | infinitive | someone not said here | bad property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 6 | report | past · passive | research | vn characterize-29.2-1-2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: subject=Theme clause=Attribute | |||||
| 7 | slowed | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 8 | share | past · passive | slowed clips of real politicians | this way obl:unmarked | tree rules |
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:036-checking-practice-true-false-not-sure.lesson:14.
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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×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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