Our street: feuds, newcomers and stories that grow, sentence 0
A story passed from person to person is like a snowball rolling downhill: it picks up bits on the way.
Who acts: snowball, story · What happens: pass, rolling, pick up · To what, where: story, bits, way
This is a sentence of the lesson «Our street: feuds, newcomers and stories that grow» 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 (snowball, story), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 story | det |
| 2 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 like | nsubj |
| 3 | passed | pass | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 story | acl |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 5 person | case |
| 5 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 passed | obl |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 person | case |
| 7 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 person | nmod |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 like | cop |
| 9 | like | like | ADP | _ | root | root |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 snowball | det |
| 11 | snowball | snowball | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 like | obl |
| 12 | rolling | rolling | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 snowball | acl |
| 13 | downhill | downhill | ADV | _ | 12 rolling | advmod |
| 14 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 16 picks | punct |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 picks | nsubj |
| 16 | picks | pick | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 snowball | acl:relcl |
| 17 | up | up | ADP | _ | 16 picks | compound:prt |
| 18 | bits | bit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 picks | obj |
| 19 | on | on | ADP | _ | 21 way | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 way | det |
| 21 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 picks | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 like | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass | participle | a story not said here | from person to person | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from person=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | rolling | gerund | a snowball not said here | downhill property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | pick up | present | story | bits | the way | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bit=Topic |
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:042-our-street-feuds-newcomers-and-stories-that-grow.lesson:0.
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): no change. 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.
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