School legends, sentence 17
A story about "a friend of a friend" that nobody can check is called an urban legend.
Who acts: nobody · What happens: check, call · To what, where: story · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «School legends» 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 (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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 story | det |
| 2 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 called | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | about | about | ADP | _ | 6 friend | case |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 friend | punct |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 friend | det |
| 6 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 story | nmod |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 friend | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 friend | det |
| 9 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 friend | nmod |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 friend | punct |
| 11 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 check | obj |
| 12 | nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 14 check | nsubj |
| 13 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 check | aux |
| 14 | check | check | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 story | acl:relcl |
| 15 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 called | aux:pass |
| 16 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 17 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 legend | det |
| 18 | urban | urban | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 legend | amod |
| 19 | legend | legend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 called | xcomp |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 called | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed voice=narrator
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | check | can | nobody | a story about a friend of a friend | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Theme | ||||
| 2 | call | present · passive | a story about a friend of a friend | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=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:024-school-legends.lesson:17.
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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