--- title: "Sources close to" means the paper is not naming who told it; it can… — Tabloids, «sources close to» and the photo that… · tree and pragmatics description: "Sources close to" means the paper is not naming who told it; it can be a real friend, a guess or nobody, and the reader cannot check. Who acts: Sources, paper, reader. A sentence of the lesson «Tabloids, «sources close to» and the photo that tells a story» of the adult life course of Mova's primary --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/46-tabloids-sources-close-to-and-the-photo/9/) [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/) / [Tabloids, «sources close to» and the p…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/46-tabloids-sources-close-to-and-the-photo/) / 9 # Tabloids, «sources close to» and the photo that tells a story, sentence 9 "Sources close to" means the paper is not naming who told it; it can be a real friend, a guess or nobody, and the reader cannot check. **Who acts:** Sources, paper, reader · **What happens:** mean, not name, tell, be, not check · **To what, where:** paper, real friend · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «Tabloids, «sources close to» and the photo that tells a story» 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 (Sources, paper, reader), 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:9 # text = "Sources close to" means the paper is not naming who told it; it can be a real friend, a guess or nobody, and the reader cannot check. # 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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 2 punct _ _ 2 Sources source NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nsubj _ _ 3 close close ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 4 to to ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 5 " " PUNCT `` _ 6 punct _ _ 6 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 paper paper NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 9 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 aux _ _ 10 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 11 advmod _ _ 11 naming name VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 6 ccomp _ _ 12 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 13 nsubj _ _ 13 told tell VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 ccomp _ _ 14 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 obj _ _ 15 ; ; PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 16 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 17 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 21 aux _ _ 18 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 21 cop _ _ 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 20 real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 friend friend NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 parataxis _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 23 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 guess guess NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=21:parataxis 25 or or CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 26 nobody nobody PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 24 conj _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 reader reader NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 nsubj _ _ 31 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 33 aux _ _ 32 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 33 advmod _ _ 33 check check VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 parataxis _ _ 34 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=13:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **mean** | present | Sources | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **not** **name** | present · progressive | the paper | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | | | paper | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Recipient | | 4 | **is a** | can | paper | a real friend and a guess | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **not** **check** | can | the reader | | | | | | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | 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:9`. **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 ×1, R7-rel-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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