When the story falls apart, sentence 1
«What book did you get?» «A book about… sharks.» «Let's see it.» «I had to leave it there.» «Why?» «Because… sharks.» Four questions and the story fell over.
Who acts: you, 's, Mia, Four questions · What happens: get, let, see, have, leave, fall over · To what, where: book, 's
This is a sentence of the lesson «When the story falls apart» 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 (you, 's, Mia, Four questions), 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 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 6 get | punct |
| 2 | What | what | DET | PronType=Int | 3 book | det |
| 3 | book | book | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 get | obj |
| 4 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 get | aux |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 get | nsubj |
| 6 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 get | punct |
| 8 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 6 get | punct |
| 9 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 11 book | punct |
| 10 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 book | det |
| 11 | book | book | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 get | parataxis |
| 12 | about | about | ADP | _ | 14 sharks | case |
| 13 | … | … | PUNCT | _ | 11 book | punct |
| 14 | sharks | shark | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 book | nmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 book | punct |
| 16 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 11 book | punct |
| 17 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 18 Let | punct |
| 18 | Let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 6 get | parataxis |
| 19 | 's | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 Let | obj |
| 20 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 Let | xcomp |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 see | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 get | punct |
| 23 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 6 get | punct |
| 24 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 26 had | punct |
| 25 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 26 had | nsubj |
| 26 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 get | parataxis |
| 27 | to | to | PART | _ | 28 leave | mark |
| 28 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 had | xcomp |
| 29 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 leave | obj |
| 30 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 28 leave | advmod |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 get | punct |
| 32 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 6 get | punct |
| 33 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 34 Why | punct |
| 34 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 get | parataxis |
| 35 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 34 Why | punct |
| 36 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 34 Why | punct |
| 37 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 40 sharks | punct |
| 38 | Because | because | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 40 sharks | case |
| 39 | … | … | PUNCT | _ | 40 sharks | punct |
| 40 | sharks | shark | NOUN | Number=Plur | 48 fell | obl |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 40 sharks | punct |
| 42 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 48 fell | punct |
| 43 | Four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 44 questions | nummod |
| 44 | questions | question | NOUN | Number=Plur | 48 fell | nsubj |
| 45 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 47 story | cc |
| 46 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 47 story | det |
| 47 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 questions | conj |
| 48 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 get | conj |
| 49 | over | over | ADV | _ | 48 fell | advmod |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 get | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- none
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get in a quote | past · do-support | you | what book | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer book=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | let in a quote | infinitive | 's | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | see in a quote | infinitive | 's not said here | book | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | have in a quote | past | Mia | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | leave in a quote | to-infinitive | Mia not said here | book | there | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | |||
| 6 | fall over | past | Four questions and the story | because sharks; over property | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=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:everyday:431-when-the-story-falls-apart.lesson:1.
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): R6-punct-agree ×9, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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.
See the release 0.4.
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