Explorers, scientists and inventors, sentence 6

To check a hero story, ask "who did this before?" and "who helped?"; the answer usually makes the hero more human, not less great.

Who acts: answer · What happens: check, ask, do, help, make · To what, where: hero story, this, hero · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Explorers, scientists and inventors» 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 (answer), 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	To	to	PART	_	2 check	mark
2	check	check	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 makes	advcl
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 story	det
4	hero	hero	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 story	compound
5	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 check	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 ask	punct
7	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 check	advcl
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 did	punct
9	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 did	nsubj
10	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 ask	ccomp
11	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	10 did	obj
12	before	before	ADV	_	10 did	advmod
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	10 did	punct
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 did	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 helped	cc
16	"	"	PUNCT	_	18 helped	punct
17	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 helped	nsubj
18	helped	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 did	conj
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	18 helped	punct
20	"	"	PUNCT	_	18 helped	punct
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 makes	punct
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 answer	det
23	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 makes	nsubj
24	usually	usually	ADV	_	25 makes	advmod
25	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 hero	det
27	hero	hero	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 makes	obj
28	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	29 human	advmod
29	human	human	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 makes	xcomp
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 great	punct
31	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	33 great	advmod
32	less	less	ADV	Degree=Cmp	33 great	advmod
33	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 makes	conj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	25 makes	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	check	to-infinitive	the answer not said here	a hero story		vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent story=Theme
2	ask speech: ask	infinitive	the answer not said here			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	do in a quote	past		this	before property	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Eventuality
4	help in a quote	past				vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
5	make	present	the answer	the hero	human, usually property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset hero=Product

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:020-explorers-scientists-and-inventors.lesson:6.

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 ×3, R6-punct-agree ×5. 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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