"Crime is up, I saw it on the news", sentence 8
Official figures show that many kinds of crime have gone down over the years, even while many people feel things are getting worse.
Who acts: Official figures, many kinds, many people, things · What happens: show, go down, feel, get · 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 (Official figures, many kinds, many people, things), 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 | Official | official | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 figures | amod |
| 2 | figures | figure | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 show | nsubj |
| 3 | show | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 gone | mark |
| 5 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 kinds | amod |
| 6 | kinds | kind | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 gone | nsubj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 crime | case |
| 8 | crime | crime | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 kinds | nmod |
| 9 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 gone | aux |
| 10 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 show | ccomp |
| 11 | down | down | ADV | _ | 10 gone | advmod |
| 12 | over | over | ADP | _ | 14 years | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 years | det |
| 14 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 gone | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 feel | punct |
| 16 | even | even | ADV | _ | 20 feel | advmod |
| 17 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 20 feel | mark |
| 18 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 people | amod |
| 19 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 feel | nsubj |
| 20 | feel | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 gone | advcl |
| 21 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 getting | nsubj |
| 22 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 getting | aux |
| 23 | getting | get | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 20 feel | ccomp |
| 24 | worse | bad | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 23 getting | xcomp |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 show | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | show | present | Official figures | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | go down | present · perfect | many kinds of crime | year | down property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||
| 3 | feel | present | many people | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | get | present · progressive | things | bad property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
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:8.
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. 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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