Viral rumours, cancellations, fakes and apologies, sentence 8
Corrections are usually much smaller than the false stories they correct, so be slow to believe a shocking first story.
Who acts: Corrections, stories · What happens: be, correct, believe · To what, where: false stories, shocking first story
This is a sentence of the lesson «Viral rumours, cancellations, fakes and apologies» 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 (Corrections, stories), 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 | Corrections | correction | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 smaller | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 smaller | cop |
| 3 | usually | usually | ADV | _ | 5 smaller | advmod |
| 4 | much | much | ADV | _ | 5 smaller | advmod |
| 5 | smaller | small | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 6 | than | than | ADP | _ | 9 stories | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 stories | det |
| 8 | false | false | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 stories | amod |
| 9 | stories | story | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 smaller | obl |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 correct | nsubj |
| 11 | correct | correct | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 stories | acl:relcl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 slow | punct |
| 13 | so | so | ADV | _ | 15 slow | advmod |
| 14 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 15 slow | cop |
| 15 | slow | slow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 smaller | parataxis |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 believe | mark |
| 17 | believe | believe | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 slow | xcomp |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 story | det |
| 19 | shocking | shocking | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 story | amod |
| 20 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 21 story | amod |
| 21 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 believe | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 smaller | 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 | Corrections | than the false stories; small, usually property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | correct speech: disagree | present | stories = story | the false stories not said here | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent story=Patient | ||||
| 3 | is | infinitive | slow property | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | believe | to-infinitive | a shocking first story | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer story=Stimulus |
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:047-viral-rumours-cancellations-fakes-and-apologies.lesson:8.
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): R7-rel-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.
See the release 0.4.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/47-viral-rumours-cancellations-fakes-and-apologies/8/