Our street: who parked where and who won what, sentence 28
Before passing a story on, check it: a small nip can become a horror story in three tellings.
Who acts: you, small nip · What happens: pass on, check, become · To what, where: story, knock, horror story
This is a sentence of the lesson «Our street: who parked where and who won what» 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 (you, small nip), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Before | before | SCONJ | _ | 2 passing | mark |
| 2 | passing | pass | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 check | advcl |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 story | det |
| 4 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 passing | obj |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 2 passing | compound:prt |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 passing | punct |
| 7 | check | check | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 check | obj |
| 9 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 14 become | punct |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 nip | det |
| 11 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 nip | amod |
| 12 | nip | nip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 become | nsubj |
| 13 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 become | aux |
| 14 | become | become | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 check | parataxis |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 story | det |
| 16 | horror | horror | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 story | compound |
| 17 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 become | xcomp |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 tellings | case |
| 19 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 20 tellings | nummod |
| 20 | tellings | telling | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 story | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 check | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- command
- act
- suggest
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed form=imp, act=suggest
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass on | gerund | you not said here | a story | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent story=Theme | ||||
| 2 | check | imperative | you not said here | knock | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 3 | become | can | a small nip | a horror story in three tellings | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
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, 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:041-our-street-who-parked-where-and-who-won-what.lesson:28.
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 ×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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