--- title: Who said it, and can I check? — Elections, crime, the weather, breaking news and… · tree and pragmatics description: Who said it, and can I check? Who acts: I. A sentence of the lesson «Elections, crime, the weather, breaking news and news vs opinion» of the adult life course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/52-elections-crime-the-weather-breaking-news-and-news-vs-opinion/4/) [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/) / [Elections, crime, the weather, breakin…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/52-elections-crime-the-weather-breaking-news-and-news-vs-opinion/) / 4 # Elections, crime, the weather, breaking news and news vs opinion, sentence 4 Who said it, and can I check? **Who acts:** I · **What happens:** say, check · **To what, where:** news · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «Elections, crime, the weather, breaking news and news vs opinion» 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 (I), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:adult-life:052-elections-crime-the-weather-breaking-news-and-news-vs-opinion.lesson:4 # text = Who said it, and can I check? # source = school lesson (ours) # course = adult-life # lesson = 052-elections-crime-the-weather-breaking-news-and-news-vs-opinion.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 1 Who who PRON WP PronType=Int 2 nsubj _ _ 2 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 obj _ _ 4 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 5 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 6 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 8 aux _ _ 7 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 8 check check VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 conj _ _ 9 ? ? PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=8:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: wh-question - act: ask - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=ask | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | | news | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent it=Topic | | 2 | **check** | can | I | | | | | | 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:052-elections-crime-the-weather-breaking-news-and-news-vs-opinion.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 ×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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Elections, crime, the weather, breakin…, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/52-elections-crime-the-weather-breaking-news-and-news-vs-opinion/3/) - next →: [Elections, crime, the weather, breakin…, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/52-elections-crime-the-weather-breaking-news-and-news-vs-opinion/5/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/52-elections-crime-the-weather-breaking-news-and-news-vs-opinion/)