Animal myths put right: elephants and mice, lemmings, ostriches and goldfish, sentence 0

Animal myths are like a story passed along a line of children in a game of whispers: something true is seen, someone tells it a bit wrongly, and a cartoon or a film makes the wrong version famous.

Who acts: Animal myths, someone, cartoon · What happens: be, pass, see, tell, make · To what, where: story, game, something, wrong version · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Animal myths put right: elephants and mice, lemmings, ostriches and goldfish» 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 (Animal myths, someone, cartoon), 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	Animal	Animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 myths	compound
2	myths	myth	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 story	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 story	cop
4	like	like	ADP	_	6 story	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 story	det
6	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	passed	pass	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 story	acl
8	along	along	ADP	_	10 line	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 line	det
10	line	line	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 passed	obl
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 children	case
12	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 line	nmod
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 game	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 game	det
15	game	game	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 passed	obl
16	of	of	ADP	_	17 whispers	case
17	whispers	whisper	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 game	nmod
18	:	:	PUNCT	_	22 seen	punct
19	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	22 seen	nsubj:pass
20	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 something	amod
21	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 seen	aux:pass
22	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 story	parataxis
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 tells	punct
24	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	25 tells	nsubj
25	tells	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 seen	conj
26	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 tells	obj
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 bit	det
28	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 wrongly	obl:unmarked
29	wrongly	wrongly	ADV	_	25 tells	advmod
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 makes	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 makes	cc
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 cartoon	det
33	cartoon	cartoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 makes	nsubj
34	or	or	CCONJ	_	36 film	cc
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 film	det
36	film	film	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 cartoon	conj
37	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 seen	conj
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 version	det
39	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 version	amod
40	version	version	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 makes	obj
41	famous	famous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 makes	xcomp
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 story	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed act=assert

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	Animal myths				like a story	tree rules
2	pass	participle		a story not said here		a game of whispers	along a line of children	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme along line=Location
3	see	present · passive		something				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus
4	tell speech: assert	present	someone		game		wrongly property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Recipient
5	make	present	a cartoon or a film	the wrong version			famous property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset version=Product

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:295-animal-myths-put-right-elephants-and-mice-lemmings-ostriches-and-goldfish.lesson:0.

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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