Stories that change, sentence 45
When two stories clash, a witness who saw it from outside can help settle it.
Who acts: two stories, witness · What happens: clash, see, help, settle · To what, where: story
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 (two stories, witness), 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 4 clash | mark |
| 2 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 stories | nummod |
| 3 | stories | story | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 clash | nsubj |
| 4 | clash | clash | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 help | advcl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 help | punct |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 witness | det |
| 7 | witness | witness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 help | nsubj |
| 8 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 saw | nsubj |
| 9 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 witness | acl:relcl |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 saw | obj |
| 11 | from | from | ADP | _ | 12 outside | case |
| 12 | outside | outside | ADV | _ | 9 saw | obl |
| 13 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 help | aux |
| 14 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 15 | settle | settle | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 help | xcomp |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 settle | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 help | 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 | clash | present | two stories | vn battle-36.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | see | past | a witness | story | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | help | can | a witness | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | settle | infinitive | a witness not said here | story | vn odge-46-1 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme it=Location |
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:45.
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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