Just So Stories, The Beginning of the Armadillos, part 1: Painted Jaguar and the muddled advice, sentence 16
The words are real but the sense is nonsense, and that is the joke.
Who acts: words, sense, that · What happens: be · To what, where: nonsense, joke
This is a sentence of the lesson «Just So Stories, The Beginning of the Armadillos, part 1: Painted Jaguar and the muddled advice» of the books 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 (words, sense, that), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 words | det |
| 2 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 real | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 real | cop |
| 4 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 nonsense | cc |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 sense | det |
| 7 | sense | sense | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 nonsense | nsubj |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 nonsense | cop |
| 9 | nonsense | nonsense | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 real | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 joke | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 joke | cc |
| 12 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 15 joke | nsubj |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 joke | cop |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 joke | det |
| 15 | joke | joke | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 real | conj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 real | 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 | the words | real property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | the sense | nonsense | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is a | present | that | the joke | tree rules |
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:books:082-justso-armadillos-1-painted-jaguar.lesson:16.
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): R8-pos-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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