Reading a story: characters, plot and setting, sentence 4
Most stories climb a story mountain: an opening, a build-up, a problem, a resolution where the problem is sorted, and an ending.
Who acts: Most stories · What happens: climb, sort · To what, where: story mountain, problem
This is a sentence of the lesson «Reading a story: characters, plot and setting» of the english 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 (Most stories), 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 | Most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 2 stories | amod |
| 2 | stories | story | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 climb | nsubj |
| 3 | climb | climb | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 mountain | det |
| 5 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 mountain | compound |
| 6 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 climb | obj |
| 7 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 9 opening | punct |
| 8 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 opening | det |
| 9 | opening | opening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 mountain | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 up | punct |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 up | det |
| 12 | build | build | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 up | compound |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 build | punct |
| 14 | up | up | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 opening | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 problem | punct |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 problem | det |
| 17 | problem | problem | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 opening | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 resolution | punct |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 resolution | det |
| 20 | resolution | resolution | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 up | conj |
| 21 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 25 sorted | advmod |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 problem | det |
| 23 | problem | problem | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 sorted | nsubj:pass |
| 24 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 sorted | aux:pass |
| 25 | sorted | sort | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 resolution | acl:relcl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 ending | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 ending | cc |
| 28 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 ending | det |
| 29 | ending | ending | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 resolution | conj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 climb | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | climb | present | Most stories | a story mountain and a opening and a build up and a resolution and a ending and a problem | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location mountain=Theme | ||||
| 2 | sort | present · passive | the problem | vn classify-29.10 «NP V NP»: subject=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:english:022-reading-a-story-characters-plot-and-setting.lesson:4.
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): R3-conj-first ×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.
See the release 0.4.
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