School legends, sentence 4

Some legends hold a grain of truth: schools do keep records, and chewing gum may wake you up a little for a short time; but the scary or magic part is almost always added.

Who acts: legends, schools, chewing · What happens: hold, keep, chew, wake up, add · To what, where: grain, records, gum, you, scary part

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 (legends, schools, chewing), 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	2 legends	det
2	legends	legend	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 hold	nsubj
3	hold	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 grain	det
5	grain	grain	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hold	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 truth	case
7	truth	truth	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 grain	nmod
8	:	:	PUNCT	_	11 keep	punct
9	schools	school	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 keep	nsubj
10	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 keep	aux
11	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 hold	parataxis
12	records	record	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 keep	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 wake	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 wake	cc
15	chewing	chew	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	18 wake	csubj
16	gum	gum	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 chewing	obj
17	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 wake	aux
18	wake	wake	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 keep	conj
19	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	18 wake	obj
20	up	up	ADP	_	18 wake	compound:prt
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 little	det
22	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 wake	obl
23	for	for	ADP	_	26 time	case
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 time	det
25	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 time	amod
26	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 wake	obl
27	;	;	PUNCT	_	37 added	punct
28	but	but	CCONJ	_	37 added	cc
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 part	det
30	scary	scary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 part	amod
31	or	or	CCONJ	_	32 magic	cc
32	magic	magic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 scary	conj
33	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 added	nsubj:pass
34	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	37 added	aux:pass
35	almost	almost	ADV	_	36 always	advmod
36	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	37 added	advmod
37	added	add	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 hold	conj
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 hold	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	hold	present	some legends	a grain of truth			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grain=Theme
2	keep	present · do-support	schools	records			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent record=Theme
3	chew	gerund		gum			vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gum=Patient
4	wake up	may	chewing	you	time	a little obl	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent you=Patient
5	add speech: assert	present · passive		the scary part		always property	vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

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: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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