--- title: A clever reader sorts every story into four piles: what is confirmed… — Tabloids, «sources close to» and the photo that… · tree and pragmatics description: A clever reader sorts every story into four piles: what is confirmed (the person said it, or trusted news checked it), what is blown up (true but made bigger), what is pure rumour, and what is simply private. Who acts: clever reader, person, trusted news, four piles. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (clever reader, person, trusted news, four piles), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:adult-life:046-tabloids-sources-close-to-and-the-photo.lesson:2 # text = A clever reader sorts every story into four piles: what is confirmed (the person said it, or trusted news checked it), what is blown up (true but made bigger), what is pure rumour, and what is simply private. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = adult-life # lesson = 046-tabloids-sources-close-to-and-the-photo.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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×2 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 clever clever ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 reader reader NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 sorts sort VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 6 det _ _ 6 story story NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 7 into into ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 four four NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 9 nummod _ _ 9 piles pile NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obl _ _ 10 : : PUNCT : _ 13 punct _ _ 11 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 13 nsubj:pass _ _ 12 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 aux:pass _ _ 13 confirmed confirm VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 9 acl _ _ 14 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 17 punct _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 person person NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nsubj _ _ 17 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 conj _ _ 18 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 obj _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 20 or or CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 21 trusted trust VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 22 amod _ _ 22 news news NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ _ 23 checked check VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 parataxis _ _ 24 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 obj _ _ 25 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 23 punct _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 27 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 29 nsubj:pass _ _ 28 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 29 aux:pass _ _ 29 blown blow VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 13 ccomp _ _ 30 up up ADP RP _ 29 compound:prt _ _ 31 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 32 punct _ _ 32 true true ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 xcomp _ _ 33 but but CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 34 made make VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 32 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=29:conj 35 bigger big ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 34 xcomp _ _ 36 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 32 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=34:punct 37 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 38 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 41 nsubj _ _ 39 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 41 cop _ _ 40 pure pure ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 41 amod _ _ 41 rumour rumour NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 appos _ _ 42 , , PUNCT , _ 47 punct _ _ 43 and and CCONJ CC _ 47 cc _ _ 44 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 47 nsubj _ _ 45 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 47 cop _ _ 46 simply simply ADV RB _ 47 advmod _ _ 47 private private ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 parataxis _ _ 48 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=47:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **sort** | present | a clever reader | every story | | | | into four piles *goal* | vn classify-29.10 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent story=Theme into pile=Goal | | 2 | **confirm** | present · passive | | four piles | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the person | story | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent it=Topic | | 4 | **trust** | participle | | | | | | | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **check** | past | trusted news | story | | | | | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | | 6 | **blow up** | present · passive | | | | | | true *property* | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: subject=Patient | | 7 | **make** | participle | | | | | | big *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | | 8 | **is a** | present | four piles | pure rumour | | | | | tree rules | | 9 | **is** | present | | | | | | private, simply *property* | 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](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:046-tabloids-sources-close-to-and-the-photo.lesson:2`. **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, 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. 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