Too many details, too few, sentence 4
A story with too many neat details for an ordinary thing can be made up — but so can a story with too few.
What happens: make up · To what, where: story
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: 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 story | det |
| 2 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 made | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 details | case |
| 4 | too | too | ADV | _ | 5 many | advmod |
| 5 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 details | amod |
| 6 | neat | neat | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 details | amod |
| 7 | details | detail | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 story | nmod |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 thing | case |
| 9 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 thing | det |
| 10 | ordinary | ordinary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 thing | amod |
| 11 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 details | nmod |
| 12 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 made | aux |
| 13 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 14 made | aux:pass |
| 14 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 15 | up | up | ADP | _ | 14 made | compound:prt |
| 16 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 made | punct |
| 17 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 24 few | cc |
| 18 | so | so | ADV | _ | 24 few | advmod |
| 19 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 few | aux |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 story | det |
| 21 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 few | nsubj |
| 22 | with | with | ADP | _ | 24 few | case |
| 23 | too | too | ADV | _ | 24 few | advmod |
| 24 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 made | conj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 made | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make up | can · passive | a story with many neat details for a ordinary thing | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Pivot |
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:4.
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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