Tabloids, «sources close to» and the photo that tells a story, sentence 1
It is fun, but a lot of it is a small true thing with a big made-up story wrapped round it.
Who acts: bit, lot · What happens: be, make up, wrap · To what, where: bit
This is a sentence of the lesson «Tabloids, «sources close to» and the photo that tells a story» 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 (bit, lot), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 fun | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 fun | cop |
| 3 | fun | fun | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 wrapped | punct |
| 5 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 22 wrapped | cc |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 lot | det |
| 7 | lot | lot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 wrapped | nsubj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 thing | case |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 lot | nmod |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 thing | cop |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 thing | det |
| 12 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 thing | amod |
| 13 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 thing | amod |
| 14 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 lot | nmod |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 story | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 story | det |
| 17 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 story | amod |
| 18 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 story | amod |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 up | punct |
| 20 | up | up | ADP | _ | 18 made | compound:prt |
| 21 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 thing | nmod |
| 22 | wrapped | wrap | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 fun | conj |
| 23 | round | round | ADV | _ | 22 wrapped | advmod |
| 24 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 wrapped | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 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 | bit | fun property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | present | of a small true thing; with a big made story | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | make up | participle | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | wrap | past | a lot bit | bit | round property | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme |
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:046-tabloids-sources-close-to-and-the-photo.lesson:1.
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): R5-strong ×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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