Too many details, too few, sentence 41
True stories often have odd details from the senses — smells, sounds, feelings — and small mistakes.
Who acts: True stories · What happens: have · To what, where: odd details, senses
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 (True stories), 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 | True | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 stories | amod |
| 2 | stories | story | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 have | nsubj |
| 3 | often | often | ADV | _ | 4 have | advmod |
| 4 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | odd | odd | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 details | amod |
| 6 | details | detail | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 have | obj |
| 7 | from | from | ADP | _ | 9 senses | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 senses | det |
| 9 | senses | sens | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 details | nmod |
| 10 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 smells | punct |
| 11 | smells | smell | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 senses | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 sounds | punct |
| 13 | sounds | sound | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 senses | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 feelings | punct |
| 15 | feelings | feeling | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 senses | conj |
| 16 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 senses | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 mistakes | cc |
| 18 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 mistakes | amod |
| 19 | mistakes | mistake | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 senses | conj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 have | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | True stories | odd details | the senses and smells and sounds and feelings and small mistakes | often property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent detail=Patient |
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:41.
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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