When the story falls apart, sentence 29
A funny true story, like slipping in the bath, is usually a better story than a cool lie.
Who acts: funny true story · What happens: slip, be · To what, where: better story
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 (funny true story), 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 | 4 story | det |
| 2 | funny | funny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 story | amod |
| 3 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 story | amod |
| 4 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 story | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 slipping | punct |
| 6 | like | like | SCONJ | _ | 7 slipping | mark |
| 7 | slipping | slip | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 story | acl |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 bath | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 bath | det |
| 10 | bath | bath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 slipping | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 story | punct |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 story | cop |
| 13 | usually | usually | ADV | _ | 16 story | advmod |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 story | det |
| 15 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 16 story | amod |
| 16 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 17 | than | than | ADP | _ | 20 lie | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 lie | det |
| 19 | cool | cool | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 lie | amod |
| 20 | lie | lie | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 story | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 story | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | slip | gerund | a funny true story not said here | in the bath | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in bath=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | a funny true story | a better story | than a cool lie; usually 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:431-when-the-story-falls-apart.lesson:29.
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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