Our street: feuds, newcomers and stories that grow, sentence 12
Exaggeration that everyone knows is a joke, like lights «seen from space», is harmless fun.
Who acts: everyone, Exaggeration · What happens: know, be, see · To what, where: Exaggeration, joke, lights, space, harmless fun · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (everyone, Exaggeration), 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 | Exaggeration | exaggeration | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 joke | nsubj |
| 2 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 knows | obj |
| 3 | everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 4 knows | nsubj |
| 4 | knows | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Exaggeration | acl:relcl |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 joke | cop |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 joke | det |
| 7 | joke | joke | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 lights | punct |
| 9 | like | like | ADP | _ | 10 lights | case |
| 10 | lights | light | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 joke | appos |
| 11 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 12 seen | punct |
| 12 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 lights | acl |
| 13 | from | from | ADP | _ | 14 space | case |
| 14 | space | space | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 seen | obl |
| 15 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 12 seen | punct |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 fun | punct |
| 17 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 fun | cop |
| 18 | harmless | harmless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 fun | amod |
| 19 | fun | fun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 joke | conj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 fun | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | present | everyone | Exaggeration | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer that=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | be speech: other | present | Exaggeration | a joke and harmless fun | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | see in a quote | participle | lights not said here | space | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | is a | present | Exaggeration not said here | harmless fun | tree rules |
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:12.
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 ×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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