Where meat and fish come from, told honestly, sentence 2
It is not a nice story, but it is a true one, and it is better to know.
Who acts: meat · What happens: not be, be, know · To what, where: nice story, true one
This is a sentence of the lesson «Where meat and fish come from, told honestly» 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 (meat), 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 | 6 story | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 story | cop |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 story | advmod |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 story | det |
| 5 | nice | nice | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 story | amod |
| 6 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 one | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 one | cc |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 one | nsubj |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 one | cop |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 one | det |
| 12 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 one | amod |
| 13 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 story | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 better | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 better | cc |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 better | expl |
| 17 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 better | cop |
| 18 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 13 one | parataxis |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 know | mark |
| 20 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 better | csubj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 story | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is a | present | meat | a nice story but a true one | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | meat | a true one | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is | present | good property | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | know | to-infinitive | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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:343-where-meat-and-fish-come-from-told-honestly.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): R7-rel-agree ×3. 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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