--- title: «A royal source says» is a nameless claim that can be right, wrong o… — The royal family in the news: a queen's death, a… · tree and pragmatics description: «A royal source says» is a nameless claim that can be right, wrong or made up; it is not the same as the person saying it. Who acts: royal source, nameless claim, source, person. A sentence of the lesson «The royal family in the news: a queen's death, a coronation, titles lost and illnesses announce --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/45-the-royal-family-in-the-news-a-queens-death-a-coronation-titles-lost-and-illnesses-announced/24/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Adult life](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/) / [The royal family in the news: a queen'…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/45-the-royal-family-in-the-news-a-queens-death-a-coronation-titles-lost-and-illnesses-announced/) / 24 # The royal family in the news: a queen's death, a coronation, titles lost and illnesses announced, sentence 24 «A royal source says» is a nameless claim that can be right, wrong or made up; it is not the same as the person saying it. **Who acts:** royal source, nameless claim, source, person · **What happens:** say, be, make up, not be · **To what, where:** nameless claim, source · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «The royal family in the news: a queen's death, a coronation, titles lost and illnesses announced» 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 source, nameless claim, source, person), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:adult-life:045-the-royal-family-in-the-news-a-queens-death-a-coronation-titles-lost-and-illnesses-announced.lesson:24 # text = «A royal source says» is a nameless claim that can be right, wrong or made up; it is not the same as the person saying it. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = adult-life # lesson = 045-the-royal-family-in-the-news-a-queens-death-a-coronation-titles-lost-and-illnesses-announced.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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 « « PUNCT `` _ 5 punct _ _ 2 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 royal royal ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 source source NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 5 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 parataxis _ _ 6 » » PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ _ 7 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 cop _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 9 nameless nameless ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 claim claim NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 11 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 14 nsubj _ _ 12 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 14 aux _ _ 13 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 14 cop _ _ 14 right right ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 acl:relcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:amod 15 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 16 wrong wrong ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 conj _ _ 17 or or CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=14:cc 18 made make VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 14 conj _ _ 19 up up ADP RP _ 18 compound:prt _ _ 20 ; ; PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 21 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 22 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 cop _ _ 23 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 25 advmod _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:conj 26 as as ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 person person NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl _ _ 29 saying say VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 28 acl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=25:acl 30 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 obj _ _ 31 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | present | a royal source | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **be** *speech: other* | present | | a nameless claim | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **is** | can | a nameless claim | | | | | right *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **be** | | a nameless claim *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **make up** | participle | a nameless claim *not said here* | | | | | | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **not** **is** | present | source | | | | | as the person; same *property* | tree rules | | 7 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | the person *not said here* | source | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent it=Topic | 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](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:045-the-royal-family-in-the-news-a-queens-death-a-coronation-titles-lost-and-illnesses-announced.lesson:24`. **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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-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. 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