"Crime is up, I saw it on the news", sentence 12
A scary screen-time number may count schoolwork and a TV left on in the background, so always ask what exactly was counted.
Who acts: scary time number · What happens: count, leave, ask · To what, where: schoolwork, TV, background · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «"Crime is up, I saw it on the news"» of the world 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 (scary time number), 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 | 6 number | det |
| 2 | scary | scary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 number | amod |
| 3 | screen | screen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 time | compound |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 screen | punct |
| 5 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 number | compound |
| 6 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 count | nsubj |
| 7 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 count | aux |
| 8 | count | count | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | schoolwork | schoolwork | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 count | obj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 TV | cc |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 TV | det |
| 12 | TV | TV | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 schoolwork | conj |
| 13 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 TV | acl |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 background | case |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 background | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 background | det |
| 17 | background | background | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 left | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 ask | punct |
| 19 | so | so | ADV | _ | 21 ask | advmod |
| 20 | always | always | ADV | _ | 21 ask | advmod |
| 21 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 count | parataxis |
| 22 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 25 counted | nsubj:pass |
| 23 | exactly | exactly | ADV | _ | 25 counted | advmod |
| 24 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 counted | aux:pass |
| 25 | counted | count | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 ask | ccomp |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 count | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | count | may | a scary time number | schoolwork and a TV | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent schoolwork=Theme | ||||
| 2 | leave | participle | a TV not said here | the background | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent on background=Location | ||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | infinitive | always property | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | count | past · passive | exactly property | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
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:world:177-crime-is-up-i-saw-it-on-the-news.lesson:12.
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): R7-rel-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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