School legends, sentence 5
To check one, ask a teacher, the school office or the person it happened to, and enjoy the spooky ones as stories, without teasing the younger kids who believe them.
Who acts: you, it, younger kids · What happens: check, ask, happen to, enjoy, tease, believe · To what, where: one, teacher, person, spooky ones, younger kids
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 (you, it, younger kids), 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 | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 5 ask | advcl |
| 3 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 check | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 ask | punct |
| 5 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 teacher | det |
| 7 | teacher | teacher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 ask | iobj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 office | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 office | det |
| 10 | school | school | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 office | compound |
| 11 | office | office | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 teacher | conj |
| 12 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 14 person | cc |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 person | det |
| 14 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 teacher | conj |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 happened | nsubj |
| 16 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 person | acl:relcl |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 happened | compound:prt |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 enjoy | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 enjoy | cc |
| 20 | enjoy | enjoy | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 5 ask | conj |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 ones | det |
| 22 | spooky | spooky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 ones | amod |
| 23 | ones | one | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 enjoy | obj |
| 24 | as | as | ADP | _ | 25 stories | case |
| 25 | stories | story | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 enjoy | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 teasing | punct |
| 27 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 28 teasing | mark |
| 28 | teasing | tease | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 20 enjoy | advcl |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 kids | det |
| 30 | younger | young | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 31 kids | amod |
| 31 | kids | kid | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 teasing | obj |
| 32 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 33 believe | nsubj |
| 33 | believe | believe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 kids | acl:relcl |
| 34 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 believe | obj |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 ask | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | check | to-infinitive | you not said here | one | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | imperative | you not said here | a teacher and the school office or the person | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent teacher=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | happen to | past | it | the person not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | enjoy | infinitive | you not said here | the spooky ones | as stories | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer one=Stimulus | |||
| 5 | tease | gerund | you not said here | the younger kids | vn bully-59.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kid=Patient | ||||
| 6 | believe | present | the younger kids | teacher | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus |
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:5.
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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×4, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1. 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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