"Crime is up, I saw it on the news", sentence 5
To know how common something really is, you need counts, not stories: official figures, the real numbers behind a percentage, and what exactly was counted.
Who acts: you, something · What happens: know, be, need, count · To what, where: counts · 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 (you, something), 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 | To | to | PART | _ | 2 know | mark |
| 2 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 need | advcl |
| 3 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 common | advmod |
| 4 | common | common | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 know | ccomp |
| 5 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 4 common | nsubj |
| 6 | really | really | ADV | _ | 4 common | advmod |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 common | cop |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 need | punct |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 need | nsubj |
| 10 | need | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | counts | count | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 need | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 stories | punct |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 stories | advmod |
| 14 | stories | story | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 counts | conj |
| 15 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 17 figures | punct |
| 16 | official | official | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 figures | amod |
| 17 | figures | figure | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 counts | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 numbers | punct |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 numbers | det |
| 20 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 numbers | amod |
| 21 | numbers | number | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 counts | conj |
| 22 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 24 percentage | case |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 percentage | det |
| 24 | percentage | percentage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 numbers | nmod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 counted | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 counted | cc |
| 27 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 30 counted | nsubj:pass |
| 28 | exactly | exactly | ADV | _ | 30 counted | advmod |
| 29 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 counted | aux:pass |
| 30 | counted | count | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 counts | conj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 need | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | to-infinitive | you not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | is | present | something | common property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | need | present | you | counts and stories and official figures and the real numbers behind a percentage | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot count=Theme | ||||
| 4 | count | past · passive | counts and stories and official figures and the real numbers behind a percentage | 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:5.
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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