Stories that change, sentence 44
Not every changing story is a lie; people can be unsure, and their story shrinks when they are doubted.
Who acts: changing story, people, story · What happens: change, not be, be, shrink, doubt · To what, where: lie, people
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 (changing story, people, story), 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 | Not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 lie | advmod |
| 2 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 story | det |
| 3 | changing | change | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 story | amod |
| 4 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 lie | nsubj |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 lie | cop |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 lie | det |
| 7 | lie | lie | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 unsure | punct |
| 9 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 unsure | nsubj |
| 10 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 unsure | aux |
| 11 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 12 unsure | cop |
| 12 | unsure | unsure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 lie | parataxis |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 shrinks | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 shrinks | cc |
| 15 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 story | nmod:poss |
| 16 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 shrinks | nsubj |
| 17 | shrinks | shrink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 unsure | conj |
| 18 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 21 doubted | advmod |
| 19 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 doubted | nsubj |
| 20 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 doubted | aux:pass |
| 21 | doubted | doubt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 shrinks | advcl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 lie | 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 | change | gerund | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | not is a | present | every changing story | a lie | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is | can | people | unsure property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | shrink | present | people's story | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 5 | doubt | present · passive | people | vn judgment-33.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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:449-stories-that-change.lesson:44.
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 ×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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