A fair trial, and the Wonderland court that gets it all wrong, sentence 11
Evidence is anything that helps show what really happened: things that were found, what witnesses saw, written papers, pictures or recordings.
Who acts: Evidence, witnesses, things · What happens: be, help, show, happen, find, see · To what, where: anything, things · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «A fair trial, and the Wonderland court that gets it all wrong» 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 (Evidence, witnesses, 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 | Evidence | evidence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 anything | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 anything | cop |
| 3 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 helps | nsubj |
| 5 | helps | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 anything | acl:relcl |
| 6 | show | show | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 helps | xcomp |
| 7 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 9 happened | nsubj |
| 8 | really | really | ADV | _ | 9 happened | advmod |
| 9 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 show | ccomp |
| 10 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 11 things | punct |
| 11 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 papers | nsubj |
| 12 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 found | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 found | aux:pass |
| 14 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 things | acl:relcl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 saw | punct |
| 16 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 18 saw | obj |
| 17 | witnesses | witness | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 saw | nsubj |
| 18 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 things | acl:relcl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 papers | punct |
| 20 | written | write | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 papers | amod |
| 21 | papers | paper | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 happened | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 pictures | punct |
| 23 | pictures | picture | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 papers | appos |
| 24 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 25 recordings | cc |
| 25 | recordings | recording | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 pictures | conj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 anything | 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 | is a | present | Evidence | anything | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | help | present | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | show | infinitive | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 4 | happen | past | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 5 | find | past · passive | things | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic | |||||
| 6 | see | past | witnesses | things | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus | ||||
| 7 | write | participle | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 8 | paper | things | 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:191-a-fair-trial-and-the-wonderland-court-that-gets-it-all-wrong.lesson:11.
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 ×2, R8-pos-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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