Where did you read that? Checking sources, sentence 18
A story passed through "my brother's mate's dad" cannot be checked and is weak evidence.
What happens: pass, not check, be · To what, where: story, weak evidence
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: 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 checked | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | passed | pass | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 story | acl |
| 4 | through | through | ADP | _ | 11 dad | case |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 dad | punct |
| 6 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 brother | nmod:poss |
| 7 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 mate | nmod:poss |
| 8 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 7 brother | case |
| 9 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 dad | nmod:poss |
| 10 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 9 mate | case |
| 11 | dad | dad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 passed | obl |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 dad | punct |
| 13 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 checked | aux |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 checked | advmod |
| 15 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 16 checked | aux:pass |
| 16 | checked | check | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 evidence | cc |
| 18 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 evidence | cop |
| 19 | weak | weak | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 evidence | amod |
| 20 | evidence | evidence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 checked | conj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 checked | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass | participle | a story not said here | through my brother's mate's dad | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme through dad=Location | ||||
| 2 | not check | can · passive | a story | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 3 | is a | present | weak evidence | tree rules |
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:18.
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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