April Fools' Day, sentence 5
In 1957 a BBC television programme showed Swiss farmers picking spaghetti from trees, and many viewers believed it; people rang to ask how to grow their own spaghetti tree.
Who acts: BBC television programme, Swiss farmers, many viewers, people · What happens: show, pick, believe, ring, ask, grow · To what, where: Swiss farmers, spaghetti, trees, own spaghetti tree · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «April Fools' Day» 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 (BBC television programme, Swiss farmers, many viewers, people), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 1957 | case |
| 2 | 1957 | 1957 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 7 showed | obl |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 programme | det |
| 4 | BBC | BBC | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 programme | compound |
| 5 | television | television | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 programme | compound |
| 6 | programme | programme | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 showed | nsubj |
| 7 | showed | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | Swiss | Swiss | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 farmers | amod |
| 9 | farmers | farmer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 showed | obj |
| 10 | picking | pick | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 farmers | acl |
| 11 | spaghetti | spaghetti | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 picking | obj |
| 12 | from | from | ADP | _ | 13 trees | case |
| 13 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 picking | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 believed | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 believed | cc |
| 16 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 viewers | amod |
| 17 | viewers | viewer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 believed | nsubj |
| 18 | believed | believe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 showed | conj |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 believed | obj |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 rang | punct |
| 21 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 rang | nsubj |
| 22 | rang | ring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 showed | parataxis |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 ask | mark |
| 24 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 rang | xcomp |
| 25 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 27 grow | advmod |
| 26 | to | to | PART | _ | 27 grow | mark |
| 27 | grow | grow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 ask | ccomp |
| 28 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 tree | nmod:poss |
| 29 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 tree | amod |
| 30 | spaghetti | spaghetti | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 tree | compound |
| 31 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 grow | obj |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 showed | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | show | past | a BBC television programme | Swiss farmers | in 1957 | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: agent=Agent farmer=Patient in 1957=Topic | |||
| 2 | pick | gerund | Swiss farmers not said here | spaghetti | trees | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent spaghetti=Theme from tree=Source | |||
| 3 | believe | past | many viewers | spaghetti | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | ring | past | people | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | ask speech: ask | to-infinitive | people not said here | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 6 | grow not said to happen | to-infinitive | people's own spaghetti tree | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location tree=Theme |
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:440-april-fools-day.lesson:5.
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 ×2. 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.
See the release 0.4.
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