Wild animals and tall tales, sentence 17
Even a documentary can be staged, so it is worth asking how a scene was filmed.
Who acts: asking · What happens: stage, be, ask, film · To what, where: documentary, scene · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Wild animals and tall tales» 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 (asking), 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 | Even | even | ADV | _ | 3 documentary | advmod |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 documentary | det |
| 3 | documentary | documentary | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 staged | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 staged | aux |
| 5 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 staged | aux:pass |
| 6 | staged | stage | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 worth | punct |
| 8 | so | so | ADV | _ | 11 worth | advmod |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 worth | expl |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 worth | cop |
| 11 | worth | worth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 staged | conj |
| 12 | asking | ask | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 worth | csubj |
| 13 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 17 filmed | advmod |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 scene | det |
| 15 | scene | scene | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 filmed | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 filmed | aux:pass |
| 17 | filmed | film | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 asking | ccomp |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 staged | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stage | can · passive | a documentary | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 2 | is | present | asking | worth property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | gerund | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 4 | film | past · passive | a scene | vn transcribe-25.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
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:008-wild-animals-and-tall-tales.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): R5-strong ×1, 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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