When the story falls apart, sentence 4
A made-up story has no real memories behind it, so questions knock it over; the truth stands up to any question.
Who acts: made story, questions, truth · What happens: make up, have, knock over, stand up · To what, where: real memories, centre, 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 (made story, questions, truth), 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 | _ | 15 knock | punct |
| 13 | so | so | ADV | _ | 15 knock | advmod |
| 14 | questions | question | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 knock | nsubj |
| 15 | knock | knock | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 has | parataxis |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 knock | obj |
| 17 | over | over | ADP | _ | 15 knock | compound:prt |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 stands | punct |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 truth | det |
| 20 | truth | truth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 stands | nsubj |
| 21 | stands | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 has | conj |
| 22 | up | up | ADP | _ | 21 stands | compound:prt |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 question | case |
| 24 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 25 question | det |
| 25 | question | question | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 stands | obl |
| 26 | . | . | 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 | centre | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent memory=Patient | |||
| 3 | knock over | present | questions | story | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent it=Patient | ||||
| 4 | stand up | present | the truth | to any question | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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:4.
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, 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.
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