Our street: feuds, newcomers and stories that grow, sentence 2

Stories grow because people fill gaps with guesses, round numbers up, and add a twist that makes the tale better to tell.

Who acts: Stories, people, twist · What happens: grow, fill, round up, add, make, tell · To what, where: gaps, numbers, twist · 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 (Stories, people, twist), 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	Stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 grow	nsubj
2	grow	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	because	because	SCONJ	_	5 fill	mark
4	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 fill	nsubj
5	fill	fill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 grow	advcl
6	gaps	gap	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 fill	obj
7	with	with	ADP	_	8 guesses	case
8	guesses	guess	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 fill	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 numbers	punct
10	round	round	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 fill	conj
11	numbers	number	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 round	obj
12	up	up	ADP	_	10 round	compound:prt
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 add	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 add	cc
15	add	add	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 fill	conj
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 twist	det
17	twist	twist	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 add	obj
18	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 makes	nsubj
19	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 twist	acl:relcl
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 tale	det
21	tale	tale	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 better	nsubj
22	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	19 makes	xcomp
23	to	to	PART	_	24 tell	mark
24	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 better	advcl
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 grow	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: pos
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	grow	present	Stories			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	fill	present	people	gaps	with guesses	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent gap=Patient with guess=Instrument
3	round up	infinitive	people not said here	numbers		vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent number=Patient
4	add speech: assert	present	people not said here	a twist		vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent twist=Patient
5	make	present	a twist		good property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset
6	tell speech: assert	to-infinitive	a twist not said here			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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:2.

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): R8-pos-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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