Our street: feuds, newcomers and stories that grow, sentence 7
Some exaggeration is just fun when everyone is in on the joke — «the Coopers' Christmas lights can be seen from space».
Who acts: exaggeration, everyone, Coopers · What happens: be, see, light · To what, where: joke, Christmas lights, space · 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 (exaggeration, everyone, Coopers), 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 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 2 exaggeration | det |
| 2 | exaggeration | exaggeration | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 fun | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 fun | cop |
| 4 | just | just | ADV | _ | 5 fun | advmod |
| 5 | fun | fun | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 12 joke | mark |
| 7 | everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 12 joke | nsubj |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 joke | cop |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 joke | case |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 joke | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 joke | det |
| 12 | joke | joke | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 fun | advcl |
| 13 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 seen | punct |
| 14 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 22 seen | punct |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Coopers | det |
| 16 | Coopers | cooper | PROPN | Number=Plur | 19 lights | nmod:poss |
| 17 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 16 Coopers | case |
| 18 | Christmas | Christmas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 lights | compound |
| 19 | lights | light | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 seen | nsubj:pass |
| 20 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 seen | aux |
| 21 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 22 seen | aux:pass |
| 22 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 fun | parataxis |
| 23 | from | from | ADP | _ | 24 space | case |
| 24 | space | space | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 seen | obl |
| 25 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 22 seen | punct |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 fun | 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 | is | present | some exaggeration | fun property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | present | everyone | the joke | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | see in a quote | can · passive | the Coopers's Christmas lights | space | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | light in a quote | the Coopers | nom light «phenomenon transitive»: poss=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:7.
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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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