Facts, opinions, clickbait and saying no to dares, sentence 28
False stories spread faster than true ones, because they are made to shock or scare.
Who acts: False stories, stories · What happens: spread, make, shock, scare · To what, where: stories
This is a sentence of the lesson «Facts, opinions, clickbait and saying no to dares» 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 (False stories, 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 | False | false | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 stories | amod |
| 2 | stories | story | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 spread | nsubj |
| 3 | spread | spread | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | faster | fast | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 3 spread | advmod |
| 5 | than | than | ADP | _ | 7 ones | case |
| 6 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 ones | amod |
| 7 | ones | one | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 spread | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 made | punct |
| 9 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 12 made | mark |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 made | nsubj |
| 11 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 made | aux:pass |
| 12 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 spread | advcl |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 shock | mark |
| 14 | shock | shock | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 made | xcomp |
| 15 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 16 scare | cc |
| 16 | scare | scare | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 shock | conj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 spread | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spread | present | False stories | than true ones; fast property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | make | present · passive | stories = story | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | shock | to-infinitive | stories = story not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | scare | infinitive | stories = story not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: 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:everyday:284-facts-opinions-and-saying-no-to-dares.lesson:28.
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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