Checking practice: true, false and not sure yet, sentence 9

"Not sure yet" is an honest answer, and a small idea, like a council discussing pets, can grow into a bigger story as it is passed on.

Who acts: pets · What happens: be, discuss, grow, pass on · To what, where: honest answer, council, bigger story, story

This is a sentence of the lesson «Checking practice: true, false and not sure yet» of the politics 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 (pets), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 sure	punct
2	Not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	3 sure	advmod
3	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	yet	yet	ADV	_	3 sure	advmod
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 sure	punct
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 answer	cop
7	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 answer	det
8	honest	honest	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 answer	amod
9	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sure	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 idea	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 idea	cc
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 idea	det
13	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 idea	amod
14	idea	idea	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sure	parataxis
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 council	punct
16	like	like	ADP	_	18 council	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 council	det
18	council	council	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 idea	nmod
19	discussing	discuss	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	18 council	acl
20	pets	pet	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 discussing	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 grow	punct
22	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 grow	aux
23	grow	grow	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	14 idea	parataxis
24	into	into	ADP	_	27 story	case
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 story	det
26	bigger	big	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	27 story	amod
27	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 grow	obl
28	as	as	SCONJ	_	31 passed	mark
29	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 passed	nsubj:pass
30	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 passed	aux:pass
31	passed	pass	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 grow	advcl
32	on	on	ADP	_	31 passed	compound:prt
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 sure	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present		a honest answer		tree rules
2	discuss speech: other	gerund	pets	a council not said here		vn chit_chat-37.6-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent council=Topic
3	grow	can			into a bigger story result	vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into story=Result
4	pass on	present · passive		story		vn send-11.1 «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:politics:036-checking-practice-true-false-not-sure.lesson:9.

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): R8-pos-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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