The school fair, famous companies and being your own boss, sentence 2

Giant companies started small too: Apple, the famous story goes, began with two young men in a garage and now sells phones to the whole world; big companies are often owned by thousands of people who each hold small pieces called shares.

Who acts: famous story, Giant companies, thousands, hold small pieces · What happens: start, go, begin, sell, own, call · To what, where: Giant companies, Apple, phones, whole world, big companies, shares · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «The school fair, famous companies and being your own boss» of the money 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 (famous story, Giant companies, thousands, hold small pieces), 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	Giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 companies	amod
2	companies	company	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 began	nsubj
3	started	start	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 companies	acl
4	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 started	xcomp
5	too	too	ADV	_	3 started	advmod
6	:	:	PUNCT	_	7 Apple	punct
7	Apple	Apple	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 companies	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 goes	punct
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 story	det
10	famous	famous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 story	amod
11	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 goes	nsubj
12	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 Apple	acl:relcl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 companies	punct
14	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	with	with	ADP	_	18 men	case
16	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	18 men	nummod
17	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 men	amod
18	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 began	obl
19	in	in	ADP	_	21 garage	case
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 garage	det
21	garage	garage	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 men	nmod
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 sells	cc
23	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	24 sells	advmod
24	sells	sell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 began	conj
25	phones	phone	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 sells	obj
26	to	to	ADP	_	29 world	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 world	det
28	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 world	amod
29	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 sells	obl
30	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 began	punct
31	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 companies	amod
32	companies	company	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 owned	nsubj:pass
33	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	35 owned	aux:pass
34	often	often	ADV	_	35 owned	advmod
35	owned	own	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 began	parataxis
36	by	by	ADP	_	37 thousands	case
37	thousands	thousand	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 owned	obl
38	of	of	ADP	_	39 people	case
39	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 thousands	nmod
40	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	39 people	acl:relcl
41	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	44 pieces	det
42	hold	hold	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 pieces	compound
43	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 pieces	amod
44	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	40 who	nsubj
45	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	44 pieces	acl
46	shares	share	NOUN	Number=Plur	45 called	xcomp
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 began	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	start	participle		Giant companies Apple not said here			small property	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
2	go	present	the famous story	Apple not said here				vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location apple=Theme
3	begin	past	Giant companies Apple				with two young men in a garage	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V PP.subeventuality»: agent=Eventuality with man=Subeventuality
4	sell	present	Giant companies Apple not said here	phones	the whole world	now		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent phone=Theme to world=Recipient
5	own	present · passive	thousands of people	big companies			often property	vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot subject=Theme
6	call	participle	each hold small pieces not said here	shares				vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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:money:032-the-school-fair-famous-companies-and-being-your-own-boss.lesson:2.

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.

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