Wild animals and tall tales, sentence 4

Some tales are nearly true, like the owl that turns its head "all the way round"; it turns about three-quarters of the way, and that is amazing enough.

Who acts: tales, owl, story, that · What happens: be, turn, turn about · To what, where: head, three quarters

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 (tales, owl, story, that), 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	Some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	2 tales	det
2	tales	tale	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 true	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 true	cop
4	nearly	nearly	ADV	_	5 true	advmod
5	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 owl	punct
7	like	like	ADP	_	9 owl	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 owl	det
9	owl	owl	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 true	obl
10	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 turns	nsubj
11	turns	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 owl	acl:relcl
12	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 head	nmod:poss
13	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 turns	obj
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 head	punct
15	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	17 way	det:predet
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 way	det
17	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 turns	obl:unmarked
18	round	round	ADV	_	17 way	advmod
19	"	"	PUNCT	_	17 way	punct
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 turns	punct
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 turns	nsubj
22	turns	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 true	parataxis
23	about	about	ADV	_	24 three	advmod
24	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	26 quarters	nummod
25	-	-	PUNCT	_	24 three	punct
26	quarters	quarter	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 turns	obj
27	of	of	ADP	_	29 way	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 way	det
29	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 quarters	nmod
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 amazing	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 amazing	cc
32	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	34 amazing	nsubj
33	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	34 amazing	cop
34	amazing	amazing	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 turns	conj
35	enough	enough	ADV	_	34 amazing	advmod
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 true	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	some tales		like the owl; nearly, true property	tree rules
2	turn	present	the owl	story's head	all way obl:unmarked	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent head=Theme
3	turn about	present	story	three quarters of the way		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V ADJ.result»: agent=Theme quarter=Result
4	is	present	that		amazing, enough 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:4.

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 ×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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