Our street: when a guess becomes a reputation, sentence 23
Behind a funny line about someone there may be a sad story, like old pets that died.
Who acts: old pets · What happens: be, die · To what, where: sad story, funny line
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 (old pets), 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 | Behind | behind | ADP | _ | 4 line | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 line | det |
| 3 | funny | funny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 line | amod |
| 4 | line | line | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 story | obl |
| 5 | about | about | ADP | _ | 6 someone | case |
| 6 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 4 line | nmod |
| 7 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 someone | advmod |
| 8 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 story | aux |
| 9 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 12 story | cop |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 story | det |
| 11 | sad | sad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 story | amod |
| 12 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 pets | punct |
| 14 | like | like | ADP | _ | 16 pets | case |
| 15 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 pets | amod |
| 16 | pets | pet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 story | nmod |
| 17 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 died | nsubj |
| 18 | died | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 pets | acl:relcl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 story | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | may | a sad story | a funny line about someone | like old pets | tree rules | |||
| 2 | die | past | old pets | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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:23.
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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