When the story falls apart, sentence 19
Ben's teacher drew a «lie ladder»: one lie on the bottom rung, and every rung needs another lie to hold it up.
Who acts: teacher, rung · What happens: draw, need, hold up · To what, where: lie ladder, lie, rung
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 (teacher, rung), 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 | Ben | Ben | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 teacher | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Ben | case |
| 3 | teacher | teacher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 drew | nsubj |
| 4 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 ladder | det |
| 6 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 8 ladder | punct |
| 7 | lie | lie | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 ladder | compound |
| 8 | ladder | ladder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 drew | obj |
| 9 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 8 ladder | punct |
| 10 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 12 lie | punct |
| 11 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 lie | nummod |
| 12 | lie | lie | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 drew | parataxis |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 rung | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 rung | det |
| 15 | bottom | bottom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 rung | compound |
| 16 | rung | rung | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 lie | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 needs | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 needs | cc |
| 19 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 20 rung | det |
| 20 | rung | rung | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 needs | nsubj |
| 21 | needs | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 drew | conj |
| 22 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 23 lie | det |
| 23 | lie | lie | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 needs | obj |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 hold | mark |
| 25 | hold | hold | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 needs | advcl |
| 26 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 hold | obj |
| 27 | up | up | ADP | _ | 25 hold | compound:prt |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 drew | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | draw | past | Ben's teacher | a lie ladder | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ladder=Theme | ||||
| 2 | need | present | every rung | another lie | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot lie=Theme | ||||
| 3 | hold up | to-infinitive | every rung not said here | rung | vn support-15.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot it=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:19.
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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