Too many details, too few, sentence 35
Most people don't remember ordinary events to the exact minute; a story that is too perfect can be a practised script.
Who acts: Most people, story · What happens: not remember, be, practise · To what, where: ordinary events, practised script
This is a sentence of the lesson «Too many details, too few» 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 (Most 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 | Most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 2 people | amod |
| 2 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 remember | nsubj |
| 3 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 remember | aux |
| 4 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 remember | advmod |
| 5 | remember | remember | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | ordinary | ordinary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 events | amod |
| 7 | events | event | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 remember | obj |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 minute | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 minute | det |
| 10 | exact | exact | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 minute | amod |
| 11 | minute | minute | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 remember | obl |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 story | punct |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 story | det |
| 14 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 script | nsubj |
| 15 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 perfect | nsubj |
| 16 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 perfect | cop |
| 17 | too | too | ADV | _ | 18 perfect | advmod |
| 18 | perfect | perfect | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 story | acl:relcl |
| 19 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 script | aux |
| 20 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 23 script | cop |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 script | det |
| 22 | practised | practise | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 script | amod |
| 23 | script | script | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 remember | parataxis |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 remember | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not remember | present · do-support | Most people | ordinary events | minute | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent event=Theme | |||
| 2 | is | present | a story | perfect property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | practise | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | is a | can | a story | a practised script | 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:450-too-many-details-too-few.lesson:35.
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): R5-strong ×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.
See the release 0.4.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/450-too-many-details-too-few/35/