Wild animals and tall tales, sentence 2
Wild-animal tall tales spread because we see animals from far away, in cartoons, or in old films, and a good story beats a dull truth: lemmings leaping off cliffs, bats that are blind, camels with water tanks on their backs.
Who acts: animal tall tales, we, good story, lemmings, bats · What happens: spread, see, beat, leap off, be · To what, where: animals, cartoons, dull truth, cliffs
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 (animal tall tales, we, good story, lemmings), 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 | Wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 animal | amod |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 1 Wild | punct |
| 3 | animal | animal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 tales | compound |
| 4 | tall | tall | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 tales | amod |
| 5 | tales | tale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 spread | nsubj |
| 6 | spread | spread | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 9 see | mark |
| 8 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 see | nsubj |
| 9 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 spread | advcl |
| 10 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 see | obj |
| 11 | from | from | ADP | _ | 13 away | case |
| 12 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 13 away | advmod |
| 13 | away | away | ADV | _ | 10 animals | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 cartoons | punct |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 cartoons | case |
| 16 | cartoons | cartoon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 see | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 films | punct |
| 18 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 21 films | cc |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 films | case |
| 20 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 films | amod |
| 21 | films | film | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 animals | conj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 beats | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 beats | cc |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 story | det |
| 25 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 story | amod |
| 26 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 beats | nsubj |
| 27 | beats | beat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 spread | conj |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 truth | det |
| 29 | dull | dull | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 truth | amod |
| 30 | truth | truth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 beats | obj |
| 31 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 32 lemmings | punct |
| 32 | lemmings | lemming | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 truth | conj |
| 33 | leaping | leap | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 32 lemmings | acl |
| 34 | off | off | ADP | _ | 33 leaping | compound:prt |
| 35 | cliffs | cliff | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 leaping | obl |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 bats | punct |
| 37 | bats | bat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 lemmings | conj |
| 38 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 40 blind | nsubj |
| 39 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 40 blind | cop |
| 40 | blind | blind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 bats | acl:relcl |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 camels | punct |
| 42 | camels | camel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 lemmings | conj |
| 43 | with | with | ADP | _ | 45 tanks | case |
| 44 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 tanks | compound |
| 45 | tanks | tank | NOUN | Number=Plur | 42 camels | nmod |
| 46 | on | on | ADP | _ | 48 backs | case |
| 47 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 48 backs | nmod:poss |
| 48 | backs | back | NOUN | Number=Plur | 45 tanks | nmod |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 spread | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- pos
- teacher
- changed act=assert
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spread | present | animal tall tales | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | see | present | we | animals or old films | cartoons | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer animal=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | beat | present | a good story | a dull truth and lemmings and bats and camels with water tanks on tales's backs | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location truth=Theme | ||||
| 4 | leap off | gerund | lemmings and bats and camels with water tanks on tales's backs not said here | cliffs | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | is | present | bats | blind property | 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:008-wild-animals-and-tall-tales.lesson:2.
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 ×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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