Checking practice: true, false and not sure yet, sentence 6
A big thing like a cancelled national election would be on every news channel and on the official elections website at once.
Who acts: big thing · What happens: cancel, be · To what, where: news channel
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 (big thing), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 thing | det |
| 2 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 thing | amod |
| 3 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 be | nsubj |
| 4 | like | like | ADP | _ | 8 election | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 election | det |
| 6 | cancelled | cancel | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 election | amod |
| 7 | national | national | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 election | amod |
| 8 | election | election | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 thing | nmod |
| 9 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 be | aux |
| 10 | be | be | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 14 channel | case |
| 12 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 14 channel | det |
| 13 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 channel | compound |
| 14 | channel | channel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 be | obl |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 website | cc |
| 16 | on | on | ADP | _ | 20 website | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 website | det |
| 18 | official | official | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 elections | amod |
| 19 | elections | election | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 website | compound |
| 20 | website | website | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 channel | conj |
| 21 | at | at | ADP | _ | 22 once | case |
| 22 | once | once | ADV | _ | 10 be | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 be | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cancel | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | be | would | a big thing like a cancelled national election | every news channel and the elections website | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on channel=Location |
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: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): no change. 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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