Stories that change, sentence 40
Asking two people the same small questions separately shows whether their stories really match.
Who acts: Asking, stories · What happens: ask, show, match · To what, where: same small questions, two people · 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 (Asking, 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 | Asking | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 shows | csubj |
| 2 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 people | nummod |
| 3 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Asking | iobj |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 questions | det |
| 5 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 questions | amod |
| 6 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 questions | amod |
| 7 | questions | question | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Asking | obj |
| 8 | separately | separately | ADV | _ | 9 shows | advmod |
| 9 | shows | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | whether | whether | SCONJ | _ | 14 match | mark |
| 11 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 stories | nmod:poss |
| 12 | stories | story | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 match | nsubj |
| 13 | really | really | ADV | _ | 14 match | advmod |
| 14 | match | match | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 shows | ccomp |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 shows | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | gerund | the same small questions | two people | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | show | present | Asking | separately property | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | match | present | people's stories | vn amalgamate-22.2-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient |
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:40.
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): R8-pos-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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