Stories that change, sentence 12
A gentle question can show whether someone was really there.
Who acts: gentle question, someone · What happens: show, be · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Stories that change» 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 (gentle question, someone), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 question | det |
| 2 | gentle | gentle | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 question | amod |
| 3 | question | question | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 show | nsubj |
| 4 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 show | aux |
| 5 | show | show | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | whether | whether | SCONJ | _ | 10 there | mark |
| 7 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 10 there | nsubj |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 there | cop |
| 9 | really | really | ADV | _ | 10 there | advmod |
| 10 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 show | ccomp |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 show | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | show | can | a gentle question | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is | past | someone | there property | 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:449-stories-that-change.lesson:12.
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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