The night sky and outdoor myths, sentence 25

Old sayings like "moss grows on the north side" are not reliable ways to find your way, because moss grows wherever it is damp and shady, on any side of a tree.

Who acts: moss, Old sayings · What happens: grow, not be, find, be · To what, where: Old sayings, north side, reliable ways, way, side

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 (moss, Old sayings), 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	Old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 sayings	amod
2	sayings	saying	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 ways	nsubj
3	like	like	SCONJ	_	6 grows	mark
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 grows	punct
5	moss	moss	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 grows	nsubj
6	grows	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 sayings	acl
7	on	on	ADP	_	10 side	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 side	det
9	north	north	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 side	amod
10	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 grows	obl
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 grows	punct
12	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 ways	cop
13	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	15 ways	advmod
14	reliable	reliable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 ways	amod
15	ways	way	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
16	to	to	PART	_	17 find	mark
17	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 ways	acl
18	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 way	nmod:poss
19	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 find	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 grows	punct
21	because	because	SCONJ	_	23 grows	mark
22	moss	moss	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 grows	nsubj
23	grows	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 ways	advcl
24	wherever	wherever	ADV	PronType=Int	27 damp	advmod
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 damp	nsubj
26	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 damp	cop
27	damp	damp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 grows	advcl
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 shady	cc
29	shady	shady	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 damp	conj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 side	punct
31	on	on	ADP	_	33 side	case
32	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	33 side	det
33	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 grows	obl
34	of	of	ADP	_	36 tree	case
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 tree	det
36	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 side	nmod
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 ways	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	grow in a quote	present	moss	Old sayings not said here	the north side		vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location saying=Theme
2	not is a	present	Old sayings	reliable ways			tree rules
3	find	to-infinitive		your way			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Topic
4	grow	present	moss		any side of a tree		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on side=Location
5	is	present	moss			damp, wherever property	tree rules
6	be		moss not said here				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:everyday:240-night-sky-and-outdoor-myths.lesson:25.

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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