--- title: They checked — no real news site had reported it — and the uncle del… — Politicians and promises, as the news reports them · tree and pragmatics description: They checked — no real news site had reported it — and the uncle deleted it, a bit red-faced. Who acts: tricks, real news site, uncle. 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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 (tricks, real news site, uncle), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:442-politicians-and-promises-as-the-news-reports-them.lesson:18 # text = They checked — no real news site had reported it — and the uncle deleted it, a bit red-faced. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 442-politicians-and-promises-as-the-news-reports-them.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): R7-rel-agree ×2 1 They they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 checked check VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 — - PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 4 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 7 det _ _ 5 real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 6 news news NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 compound _ _ 7 site site NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 8 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 aux _ _ 9 reported report VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 2 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:ccomp 10 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 obj _ _ 11 — - PUNCT : _ 9 punct _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 uncle uncle NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ _ 15 deleted delete VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 16 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 obj _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 18 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 bit bit NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl:unmarked _ _ 20 red red ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 21 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 20 punct _ _ 22 faced faced ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=15:conj 23 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **check** | past | tricks *= trick* | | | | | | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **report** | past · perfect | no real news site | mouth | | | | | vn prosecute-33.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | | 3 | **delete** | past | the uncle | mouth | | | | | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | 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:everyday:442-politicians-and-promises-as-the-news-reports-them.lesson:18`. **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): 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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