"Crime is up, I saw it on the news", sentence 17
People have complained that "young people have no manners" for thousands of years; most teenagers are polite most of the time.
Who acts: People, young people, most teenagers · What happens: complain, have, be · To what, where: manners · 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 (People, young people, most teenagers), 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 | People | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 complained | nsubj |
| 2 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 complained | aux |
| 3 | complained | complain | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 have | mark |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 young | punct |
| 6 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 people | amod |
| 7 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 have | nsubj |
| 8 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 complained | ccomp |
| 9 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 10 manners | det |
| 10 | manners | manners | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 8 have | obj |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 have | punct |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 thousands | case |
| 13 | thousands | thousand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 complained | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 years | case |
| 15 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 thousands | nmod |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 polite | punct |
| 17 | most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 18 teenagers | amod |
| 18 | teenagers | teenager | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 polite | nsubj |
| 19 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 polite | cop |
| 20 | polite | polite | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 complained | parataxis |
| 21 | most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 20 polite | obl |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 time | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 time | det |
| 24 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 most | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 complained | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed voice=narrator
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | complain speech: other | present · perfect | People | for thousands of years | vn complain-37.8 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | have in a quote | present | young people | no manners | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent manners=Patient | ||||
| 3 | is | present | most teenagers | most of the time obl; polite property | 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:world:177-crime-is-up-i-saw-it-on-the-news.lesson:17.
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): R6-punct-agree ×1, 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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