Accidents, wars and deaths on the news, sentence 14
Rumours spread fast after something terrible happens and are often wrong; it is better to wait for what school or family say.
Who acts: Rumours, something, school · What happens: spread, happen, be, wait, say · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Accidents, wars and deaths on the news» of the religion ethics 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 (Rumours, something, school), 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 | Rumours | rumour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 spread | nsubj |
| 2 | spread | spread | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 better | parataxis |
| 3 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 2 spread | advmod |
| 4 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 7 happens | mark |
| 5 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 7 happens | nsubj |
| 6 | terrible | terrible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 something | amod |
| 7 | happens | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 spread | advcl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 wrong | cc |
| 9 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 wrong | cop |
| 10 | often | often | ADV | _ | 11 wrong | advmod |
| 11 | wrong | wrong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 spread | conj |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 better | punct |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 better | expl |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 better | cop |
| 15 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 wait | mark |
| 17 | wait | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 better | csubj |
| 18 | for | for | ADP | _ | 20 school | case |
| 19 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 20 school | nsubj |
| 20 | school | school | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 say | nsubj |
| 21 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 22 family | cc |
| 22 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 school | conj |
| 23 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 wait | advcl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 spread | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spread | present | Rumours | fast property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | happen | present | something | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | is | present | Rumours not said here | often, wrong property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | is | present | good property | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | wait | to-infinitive | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 6 | say speech: assert | infinitive | school or family | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
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:religion-ethics:060-accidents-wars-and-deaths-on-the-news.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): R5-strong ×4, R6-punct-agree ×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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