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title: Above them are «royal sources», newspaper columns and online guesses… — The royal family in the news: a wedding, a move… · tree and pragmatics
description: Above them are «royal sources», newspaper columns and online guesses — some right, many wrong, none of them checkable. Who acts: royal sources. A sentence of the lesson «The royal family in the news: a wedding, a move to America, an interview and a book» of the adult life course of Mova's primary sc
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# The royal family in the news: a wedding, a move to America, an interview and a book, sentence 4

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Above them are «royal sources», newspaper columns and online guesses — some right, many wrong, none of them checkable.

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**Who acts:** royal sources · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** things

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The royal family in the news: a wedding, a move to America, an interview and a book» of the adult life 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 (royal sources), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:adult-life:044-the-royal-family-in-the-news-a-wedding-a-move-to-america-an-interview-and-a-book.lesson:4
# text = Above them are «royal sources», newspaper columns and online guesses — some right, many wrong, none of them checkable.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = adult-life
# lesson = 044-the-royal-family-in-the-news-a-wedding-a-move-to-america-an-interview-and-a-book.lesson
# annotation = 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
1	Above	above	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obl	_	_
3	are	be	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	_
5	royal	royal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	sources	source	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
7	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=10:punct
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	newspaper	newspaper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	columns	column	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	online	online	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	guesses	guess	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	_
14	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	6	punct	_	_
15	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	21	det	_	_
16	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=16:punct
18	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	wrong	wrong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
21	none	none	PRON	NN	PronType=Neg	24	nsubj	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nmod	_	_
24	checkable	checkable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	parataxis	_	_
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	24	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: neg
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **does** | present | royal sources and newspaper columns and online guesses | things *= thing* |  |  |  | above *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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.

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**Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:adult-life:044-the-royal-family-in-the-news-a-wedding-a-move-to-america-an-interview-and-a-book.lesson:4`.

**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. **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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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