The night sky and outdoor myths, sentence 23
A girl in Scotland believed that moss always grows on the north side of trees and used it to find her way; she walked the wrong way and got lost.
Who acts: girl, moss · What happens: believe, grow, use, find, walk, get · To what, where: north side, moss, way, wrong way · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «The night sky and outdoor myths» of the everyday 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 (girl, moss), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 girl | det |
| 2 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 believed | nsubj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 Scotland | case |
| 4 | Scotland | Scotland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 girl | nmod |
| 5 | believed | believe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 grows | mark |
| 7 | moss | moss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 grows | nsubj |
| 8 | always | always | ADV | _ | 9 grows | advmod |
| 9 | grows | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 believed | ccomp |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 side | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 side | det |
| 12 | north | north | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 side | amod |
| 13 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 grows | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 trees | case |
| 15 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 side | nmod |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 used | cc |
| 17 | used | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 believed | conj |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 used | obj |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 find | mark |
| 20 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 used | advcl |
| 21 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 way | nmod:poss |
| 22 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 find | obj |
| 23 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 walked | punct |
| 24 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 walked | nsubj |
| 25 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 believed | parataxis |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 way | det |
| 27 | wrong | wrong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 way | amod |
| 28 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 walked | obj |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 got | cc |
| 30 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 walked | conj |
| 31 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 30 got | xcomp |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 believed | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed polarity=none
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | believe | past | a girl in Scotland | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | grow | present | moss | the north side of trees | always property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on side=Location | |||
| 3 | use | past | a girl in Scotland not said here | moss | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | ||||
| 4 | find | to-infinitive | a girl in Scotland not said here | girl's way | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Topic | ||||
| 5 | walk | past | girl | the wrong way | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme way=Trajectory | ||||
| 6 | get | past | girl not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 7 | lose | participle | girl not said here | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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:everyday:240-night-sky-and-outdoor-myths.lesson:23.
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 ×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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