What really happens to things you swallow, sentence 18

A scary number, a cousin's doctor nobody has met, or half a headline is not proof; ask who measured it and read the whole thing, and remember one example proves little, while a record kept over many days shows much more.

Who acts: scary number, headline, one example, record · What happens: meet, not be, ask, measure, read, remember · To what, where: proof, headline, whole thing, record, more · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «What really happens to things you swallow» of the myths 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 (scary number, headline, one example, record), 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	3 number	det
2	scary	scary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 number	amod
3	number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 met	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 number	punct
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 cousin	det
6	cousin	cousin	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 doctor	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 cousin	case
8	doctor	doctor	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 nobody	compound
9	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	11 met	nsubj
10	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 met	aux
11	met	meet	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 proof	punct
13	or	or	CCONJ	_	19 proof	cc
14	half	half	DET	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind	16 headline	det:predet
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 headline	det
16	headline	headline	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 proof	nsubj
17	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 proof	cop
18	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	19 proof	advmod
19	proof	proof	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 met	conj
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	11 met	punct
21	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 met	parataxis
22	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 measured	nsubj
23	measured	measure	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 ask	ccomp
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 measured	obj
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 read	cc
26	read	read	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 measured	conj
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 thing	det
28	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 thing	amod
29	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 read	obj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 remember	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 remember	cc
32	remember	remember	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	11 met	parataxis
33	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	34 example	nummod
34	example	example	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 proves	nsubj
35	proves	prove	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 remember	ccomp
36	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 proves	xcomp
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 shows	punct
38	while	while	SCONJ	_	45 shows	mark
39	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	40 record	det
40	record	record	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 shows	nsubj
41	kept	keep	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	40 record	acl
42	over	over	ADV	_	43 many	advmod
43	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 days	amod
44	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	41 kept	obl
45	shows	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	35 proves	advcl
46	much	much	ADV	_	47 more	advmod
47	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	45 shows	obj
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 met	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	meet	present · perfect	a scary number				vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	not is a	present	half headline	proof			tree rules
3	ask speech: ask	infinitive					vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	measure	past		headline			vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme it=Value
5	read	infinitive		the whole thing			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Topic
6	remember	infinitive					vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
7	prove	present	one example			little property	vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
8	keep	participle		a record not said here	day		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
9	show	present	a record	more			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent more=Recipient

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:myths:001-what-really-happens-to-things-you-swallow.lesson:18.

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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2. 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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