Olympiad: what is really going on ★★★, sentence 13
A story passed along a street often grows at each step, so the first, plainest version is usually closest to what really happened.
Who acts: story, first plainest version · What happens: pass, grow, be, happen · To what, where: story, street
This is a sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: what is really going on ★★★» 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 (story, first plainest version), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 story | det |
| 2 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 grows | nsubj |
| 3 | passed | pass | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 story | acl |
| 4 | along | along | ADP | _ | 6 street | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 street | det |
| 6 | street | street | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 passed | obl |
| 7 | often | often | ADV | _ | 8 grows | advmod |
| 8 | grows | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 step | case |
| 10 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 step | det |
| 11 | step | step | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 grows | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 first | punct |
| 13 | so | so | ADV | _ | 21 closest | advmod |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 version | det |
| 15 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 18 version | amod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 version | punct |
| 17 | plainest | plain | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 18 version | amod |
| 18 | version | version | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 closest | nsubj |
| 19 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 closest | cop |
| 20 | usually | usually | ADV | _ | 21 closest | advmod |
| 21 | closest | close | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 8 grows | parataxis |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 what | case |
| 23 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 closest | obl |
| 24 | really | really | ADV | _ | 25 happened | advmod |
| 25 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 what | acl:relcl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 grows | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=assert
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass | participle | a story not said here | a street | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme along street=Location | ||||
| 2 | grow | present | a story | at each step; often property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at step=Location | ||||
| 3 | is | present | the first plainest version | close, usually property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | happen | past | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: 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:061-olympiad-what-is-really-going-on.lesson:13.
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.
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