Boasting cousins and made-up holidays, sentence 25
Many boasts are mostly true with one bit stretched; stories often grow each time they are retold.
Who acts: Many boasts, stories · What happens: be, stretch, grow, retell · To what, where: one bit, boasts
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 (Many boasts, stories), 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 | Many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 boasts | amod |
| 2 | boasts | boast | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 true | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 true | cop |
| 4 | mostly | mostly | ADV | _ | 5 true | advmod |
| 5 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 bit | case |
| 7 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 bit | nummod |
| 8 | bit | bit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 true | obl |
| 9 | stretched | stretch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 bit | acl |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 grow | punct |
| 11 | stories | story | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 grow | nsubj |
| 12 | often | often | ADV | _ | 13 grow | advmod |
| 13 | grow | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 true | parataxis |
| 14 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 15 time | det |
| 15 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 grow | obl:unmarked |
| 16 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 retold | nsubj |
| 17 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 retold | aux:pass |
| 18 | retold | retell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 time | acl:relcl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 true | 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 | is | present | Many boasts | with one bit; mostly, true property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | stretch | participle | one bit not said here | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 3 | grow | present | stories | time | often property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 4 | retell | present · passive | boasts = boast | 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:435-boasting-cousins-and-made-up-holidays.lesson:25.
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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