Where did you read that? Checking sources, sentence 13
The idea that "Eskimos have 100 words for snow" grew as it was retold; Inuit and Yupik languages build long words from parts, so counting their "words" for snow is not simple.
Who acts: Eskimos, idea, Inuit · What happens: have, grow, retell, build, count, not be · To what, where: 100 words, idea, long words, parts, words
This is a sentence of the lesson «Where did you read that? Checking sources» 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 (Eskimos, idea, Inuit), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 idea | det |
| 2 | idea | idea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 grew | nsubj |
| 3 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 6 have | mark |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 have | punct |
| 5 | Eskimos | eskimo | PROPN | Number=Plur | 6 have | nsubj |
| 6 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 idea | acl |
| 7 | 100 | 100 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 8 words | nummod |
| 8 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 have | obj |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 snow | case |
| 10 | snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 words | nmod |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 have | punct |
| 12 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 build | parataxis |
| 13 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 16 retold | mark |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 retold | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 retold | aux:pass |
| 16 | retold | retell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 grew | advcl |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 Inuit | punct |
| 18 | Inuit | inuit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 build | nsubj |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 languages | cc |
| 20 | Yupik | yupik | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 Inuit | conj |
| 21 | languages | language | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 Inuit | conj |
| 22 | build | build | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 23 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 words | amod |
| 24 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 build | obj |
| 25 | from | from | ADP | _ | 26 parts | case |
| 26 | parts | part | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 build | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 counting | punct |
| 28 | so | so | ADV | _ | 29 counting | advmod |
| 29 | counting | count | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 22 build | advcl |
| 30 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 words | nmod:poss |
| 31 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 32 words | punct |
| 32 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 counting | obj |
| 33 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 32 words | punct |
| 34 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 38 simple | mark |
| 35 | snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 counting | obl |
| 36 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 38 simple | cop |
| 37 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 38 simple | advmod |
| 38 | simple | simple | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 counting | ccomp |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 grew | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have in a quote | present | Eskimos | 100 words | for snow | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Patient | |||
| 2 | grow | past | the idea | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | retell | past · passive | idea | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | build | present | Inuit and Yupik and languages | long words | parts | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V PP»: agent=Asset word=Product from part=Material | |||
| 5 | count | gerund | Inuit and Yupik and languages not said here | Inuit's words | snow obl | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Theme | |||
| 6 | not is | present | Inuit and Yupik and languages not said here | simple property | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | word in a quote | Inuit | nom word «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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:028-where-did-you-read-that-checking-sources.lesson:13.
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 ×2, R8-pos-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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