Our street: feuds, newcomers and stories that grow, sentence 13
Ghost stories and playground legends are fun, but they should not turn a real neighbour into a villain.
Who acts: Ghost stories, legends · What happens: be, not turn · To what, where: real neighbour, villain
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 (Ghost stories, legends), 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 | Ghost | ghost | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 stories | compound |
| 2 | stories | story | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 fun | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 legends | cc |
| 4 | playground | playground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 legends | compound |
| 5 | legends | legend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 stories | conj |
| 6 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 fun | cop |
| 7 | fun | fun | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 turn | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 turn | cc |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 turn | nsubj |
| 11 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 turn | aux |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 turn | advmod |
| 13 | turn | turn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 fun | conj |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 neighbour | det |
| 15 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 neighbour | amod |
| 16 | neighbour | neighbour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 turn | obj |
| 17 | into | into | ADP | _ | 19 villain | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 villain | det |
| 19 | villain | villain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 turn | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 fun | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Ghost stories and playground legends | fun property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not turn | should | legends = legend | a real neighbour | a villain | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent neighbour=Theme into villain=Trajectory |
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:13.
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.
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