When the story falls apart, sentence 21
A made-up story has no real memories behind it, so simple questions make it fall apart.
Who acts: made story, simple questions, rung · What happens: make up, have, make, fall apart · To what, where: real memories, 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 (made story, simple questions, 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 story | det |
| 2 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 story | amod |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 made | punct |
| 4 | up | up | ADP | _ | 2 made | compound:prt |
| 5 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 has | nsubj |
| 6 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 9 memories | det |
| 8 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 memories | amod |
| 9 | memories | memory | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 has | obj |
| 10 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 11 it | case |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 memories | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 make | punct |
| 13 | so | so | ADV | _ | 16 make | advmod |
| 14 | simple | simple | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 questions | amod |
| 15 | questions | question | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 make | nsubj |
| 16 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 has | conj |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 make | obj |
| 18 | fall | fall | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 make | xcomp |
| 19 | apart | apart | ADV | _ | 18 fall | advmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 has | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make up | participle | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | have | present | a made story | no real memories | rung | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent memory=Patient | |||
| 3 | make | present | simple questions | rung | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | fall apart | infinitive | rung not said here | apart property | vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
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:21.
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): R4-particle ×1, R6-punct-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.
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