Peeking at presents and secrets, sentence 18
Things heard half through a door are often misunderstood and can be more frightening than the truth.
Who acts: Things · What happens: hear, misunderstand, be · To what, where: half, door, Things
This is a sentence of the lesson «Peeking at presents and secrets» 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 (Things), 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 | Things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 misunderstood | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 1 Things | acl |
| 3 | half | half | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 2 heard | obj |
| 4 | through | through | ADP | _ | 6 door | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 door | det |
| 6 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 heard | obl |
| 7 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 misunderstood | aux:pass |
| 8 | often | often | ADV | _ | 9 misunderstood | advmod |
| 9 | misunderstood | misunderstand | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 frightening | cc |
| 11 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 frightening | aux |
| 12 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 14 frightening | cop |
| 13 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 14 frightening | advmod |
| 14 | frightening | frightening | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 misunderstood | conj |
| 15 | than | than | ADP | _ | 17 truth | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 truth | det |
| 17 | truth | truth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 frightening | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 misunderstood | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | participle | Things not said here | half | a door | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer half=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | misunderstand | present · passive | Things | often property | vn comprehend-87.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | is | can | than the truth; frightening property | 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:356-peeking-at-presents-diaries-and-letters.lesson:18.
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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