Boasting cousins and made-up holidays, sentence 2
Knowing one real fact is often enough to spot a tall tale — and you can enjoy a tall tale without believing it.
Who acts: Knowing, you · What happens: know, be, spot, enjoy, believe · To what, where: one real fact, tall tale, tale
This is a sentence of the lesson «Boasting cousins and made-up holidays» 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 (Knowing, you), 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 | Knowing | know | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 enough | csubj |
| 2 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 fact | nummod |
| 3 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 fact | amod |
| 4 | fact | fact | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Knowing | obj |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 enough | cop |
| 6 | often | often | ADV | _ | 7 enough | advmod |
| 7 | enough | enough | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 spot | mark |
| 9 | spot | spot | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 enough | advcl |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 tale | det |
| 11 | tall | tall | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 tale | amod |
| 12 | tale | tale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 spot | obj |
| 13 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 enjoy | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 enjoy | cc |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 enjoy | nsubj |
| 16 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 enjoy | aux |
| 17 | enjoy | enjoy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 enough | parataxis |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 tale | det |
| 19 | tall | tall | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 tale | amod |
| 20 | tale | tale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 enjoy | obj |
| 21 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 22 believing | mark |
| 22 | believing | believe | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 enjoy | advcl |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 believing | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 enough | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- evaluate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- pos
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | gerund | one real fact | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer fact=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | is | present | Knowing | enough, often property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | spot | to-infinitive | Knowing not said here | a tall tale | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme tale=Destination | ||||
| 4 | enjoy | can | you | a tall tale | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer tale=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | believe | gerund | you not said here | tale | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus |
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:435-boasting-cousins-and-made-up-holidays.lesson:2.
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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