Our street: when a guess becomes a reputation, sentence 2
Repeat a guess enough times and it sticks to a person like a label.
Who acts: you, guess · What happens: repeat, stick · To what, where: guess
This is a sentence of the lesson «Our street: when a guess becomes a reputation» 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 (you, guess), 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 | Repeat | repeat | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 guess | det |
| 3 | guess | guess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Repeat | obj |
| 4 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 1 Repeat | advmod |
| 5 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Repeat | obl:unmarked |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 sticks | cc |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 sticks | nsubj |
| 8 | sticks | stick | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Repeat | conj |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 person | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 person | det |
| 11 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 sticks | obl |
| 12 | like | like | ADP | _ | 14 label | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 label | det |
| 14 | label | label | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 person | nmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Repeat | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | repeat | imperative | you not said here | a guess | time | enough property | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent guess=Eventuality | ||
| 2 | stick | present | guess | to a person like a label | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |
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:043-our-street-when-a-guess-becomes-a-reputation.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): 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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