Putting it together: explain each side, check the claim, sentence 16
Honest leaders explain what happened even when they lose; some say the best leaders get results, others say the best are fair and honest even if they win less.
Who acts: Honest leaders, leaders, some, best leaders, others, best · What happens: explain, happen, lose, say, get, be · To what, where: results, less · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Putting it together: explain each side, check the claim» 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 (Honest leaders, leaders, some, best leaders), 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 | Honest | honest | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 leaders | amod |
| 2 | leaders | leader | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 explain | nsubj |
| 3 | explain | explain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 happened | nsubj |
| 5 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 explain | ccomp |
| 6 | even | even | ADV | _ | 9 lose | advmod |
| 7 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 9 lose | mark |
| 8 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 lose | nsubj |
| 9 | lose | lose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 happened | advcl |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 say | punct |
| 11 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 12 say | nsubj |
| 12 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 explain | parataxis |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 leaders | det |
| 14 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 15 leaders | amod |
| 15 | leaders | leader | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 get | nsubj |
| 16 | get | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 say | ccomp |
| 17 | results | result | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 get | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 say | punct |
| 19 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 say | nsubj |
| 20 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 say | parataxis |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 best | det |
| 22 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 24 fair | nsubj |
| 23 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 fair | cop |
| 24 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 say | ccomp |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 honest | cc |
| 26 | honest | honest | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 fair | conj |
| 27 | even | even | ADV | _ | 30 win | advmod |
| 28 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 30 win | mark |
| 29 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 win | nsubj |
| 30 | win | win | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 fair | advcl |
| 31 | less | less | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 30 win | obj |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 explain | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | explain speech: assert | present | Honest leaders | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | happen | past | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | lose | present | leaders = leader | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | present | some | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | get | present | the best leaders | results | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer result=Stimulus | ||||
| 6 | say speech: assert | present | others | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 7 | is | present | the best | fair property | tree rules | ||||
| 8 | be | the best not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 9 | win a condition, not said to happen | present | others = other | less | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent less=Eventuality |
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:040-putting-it-together.lesson:16.
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, R8-pos-agree ×3. 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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