Grown-ups' little lies: the ice-cream van, sentence 34
Many old warnings told to children are myths, and you can check them kindly.
Who acts: Many old warnings, you · What happens: tell, be, check · To what, where: Many old warnings, children, myths, warnings · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Grown-ups' little lies: the ice-cream van» 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 old warnings, 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 | Many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 warnings | amod |
| 2 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 warnings | amod |
| 3 | warnings | warning | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 myths | nsubj |
| 4 | told | tell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 warnings | acl |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 children | case |
| 6 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 told | obl |
| 7 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 myths | cop |
| 8 | myths | myth | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 check | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 check | cc |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 check | nsubj |
| 12 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 check | aux |
| 13 | check | check | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 myths | conj |
| 14 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 check | obj |
| 15 | kindly | kindly | ADV | _ | 13 check | advmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 myths | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=assert
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | participle | Many old warnings not said here | children | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient how S»: agent=Agent to child=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | Many old warnings | myths | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | check | can | you | warnings = warning | kindly property | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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:443-grown-ups-little-lies-the-ice-cream-van.lesson:34.
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): R2-punct-next ×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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