Myths and cartoons put right: Tom and Jerry, elephants and mice, ostriches and more, sentence 2

Think of a game of whispers at school: the first child says something true, and by the end of the line it has turned into nonsense.

Who acts: you, first child, child · What happens: think, say, turn · To what, where: something, nonsense · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Myths and cartoons put right: Tom and Jerry, elephants and mice, ostriches and more» of the biology 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, first child, child), 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	Think	think	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	of	of	ADP	_	4 game	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 game	det
4	game	game	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Think	obl
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 whispers	case
6	whispers	whisper	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 game	nmod
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 school	case
8	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 game	nmod
9	:	:	PUNCT	_	13 says	punct
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 child	det
11	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	12 child	amod
12	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 says	nsubj
13	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Think	parataxis
14	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	13 says	obj
15	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 something	amod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 turned	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 turned	cc
18	by	by	ADP	_	20 end	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 end	det
20	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 turned	obl
21	of	of	ADP	_	23 line	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 line	det
23	line	line	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 end	nmod
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 turned	nsubj
25	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 turned	aux
26	turned	turn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	13 says	conj
27	into	into	ADP	_	28 nonsense	case
28	nonsense	nonsense	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 turned	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Think	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	imperative	you not said here				of a game of whispers at school	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert	present	the first child	something				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent something=Topic
3	turn	present · perfect	child		nonsense	by the end of the line		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: agent=Theme by end=Source into nonsense=Trajectory

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:biology:191-myths-and-cartoons-put-right.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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