Ancient times and famous stories, sentence 4

Some old stories are half true: Troy was a real city, but the wooden horse is a legend; frogs really were dropped into milk in some villages, but nobody proved it kept the milk fresh.

Who acts: old stories, Troy, wooden horse, nobody, horse · What happens: be, drop, prove, keep · To what, where: real city, legend, frogs, milk

This is a sentence of the lesson «Ancient times and famous stories» 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 (old stories, Troy, wooden horse, nobody), 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	Some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	3 stories	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 stories	amod
3	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 true	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 true	cop
5	half	half	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	6 true	advmod
6	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	:	:	PUNCT	_	6 true	punct
8	Troy	Troy	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 city	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 city	cop
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 city	det
11	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 city	amod
12	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 true	parataxis
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 legend	punct
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	20 legend	cc
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 horse	det
16	wooden	wooden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 horse	amod
17	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 legend	nsubj
18	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 legend	cop
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 legend	det
20	legend	legend	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 city	conj
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 frogs	punct
22	frogs	frog	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 dropped	nsubj:pass
23	really	really	ADV	_	25 dropped	advmod
24	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 dropped	aux:pass
25	dropped	drop	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 true	parataxis
26	into	into	ADP	_	27 milk	case
27	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 dropped	obl
28	in	in	ADP	_	30 villages	case
29	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	30 villages	det
30	villages	village	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 dropped	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 proved	punct
32	but	but	CCONJ	_	34 proved	cc
33	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	34 proved	nsubj
34	proved	prove	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 dropped	conj
35	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 kept	nsubj
36	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 proved	ccomp
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 milk	det
38	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 kept	obj
39	fresh	fresh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 kept	xcomp
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 true	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	some old stories			half, true property	tree rules
2	is a	past	Troy	a real city but a legend			tree rules
3	is a	present	the wooden horse	a legend			tree rules
4	drop	past · passive		frogs	milk	in some villages	vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location PP.destination»: subject=Theme into milk=Destination in village=Initial_Location
5	prove	past	nobody				vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
6	keep	past	horse	the milk		fresh property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent milk=Theme

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:021-ancient-times-and-famous-stories.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): 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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