When the story falls apart, sentence 31
The earlier you say «actually, that wasn't true», the easier it is.
Who acts: you, that, story · What happens: say, not be, be · Speech: someone speaks here
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, that, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 earlier | det |
| 2 | earlier | early | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 4 say | advmod |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 say | nsubj |
| 4 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 easier | advcl |
| 5 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 4 say | punct |
| 6 | actually | actually | ADV | _ | 4 say | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 » | punct |
| 8 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 true | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 true | cop |
| 10 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 true | advmod |
| 11 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 say | ccomp |
| 12 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 11 true | punct |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 easier | punct |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 easier | det |
| 15 | easier | easy | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 easier | nsubj |
| 17 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 easier | cop |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 easier | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | you | actually, early property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | not is in a quote | past | that | true property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is | present | story | easy 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:31.
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): R7-rel-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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