Too many details, too few, sentence 39
A description made only of famous things everyone knows, with nothing personal, may come from films rather than memory.
Who acts: everyone, description · What happens: make, know, come · To what, where: description, famous things, films
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 (everyone, description), 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 | 2 description | det |
| 2 | description | description | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 come | nsubj |
| 3 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 description | acl |
| 4 | only | only | ADV | _ | 3 made | advmod |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 things | case |
| 6 | famous | famous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 things | amod |
| 7 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 made | obl |
| 8 | everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 9 knows | nsubj |
| 9 | knows | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 things | acl:relcl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 nothing | punct |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 nothing | case |
| 12 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 2 description | obj |
| 13 | personal | personal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 nothing | amod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 description | punct |
| 15 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 come | aux |
| 16 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 17 | from | from | ADP | _ | 18 films | case |
| 18 | films | film | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 come | obl |
| 19 | rather | rather | ADV | ExtPos=CCONJ | 21 memory | cc |
| 20 | than | than | ADP | _ | 19 rather | fixed |
| 21 | memory | memory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 films | conj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 come | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | participle | a description not said here | of famous things | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | ||||
| 2 | know | present | everyone | famous things not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer thing=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | come | may | a description | films rather memory | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from film=Initial_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:450-too-many-details-too-few.lesson:39.
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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