Boasting cousins and made-up holidays, sentence 24
Knowing a few real facts helps you spot exaggerations.
Who acts: Knowing, you · What happens: know, help, spot · To what, where: few real facts, you, exaggerations
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 | 6 helps | csubj |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 facts | det |
| 3 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 facts | amod |
| 4 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 facts | amod |
| 5 | facts | fact | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Knowing | obj |
| 6 | helps | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 helps | obj |
| 8 | spot | spot | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 helps | xcomp |
| 9 | exaggerations | exaggeration | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 spot | obj |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 helps | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | gerund | a few real facts | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer fact=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | help | present | Knowing | you | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent you=Beneficiary clause=Theme | ||||
| 3 | spot | infinitive | you not said here | exaggerations | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme exaggeration=Destination |
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:24.
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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