Granny's rules, superstitions and good manners, sentence 2
Nobody can prove a whistle blows money away or a key on the table brings money troubles — they are beliefs, not facts — but in her house you simply follow them, the way you'd take your shoes off.
Who acts: Nobody, whistle, key, keys, you · What happens: prove, blow away, bring, be, follow, take off · To what, where: money, money troubles, beliefs, keys, house, shoes
This is a sentence of the lesson «Granny's rules, superstitions and good manners» of the ukrainian street 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 (Nobody, whistle, key, keys), 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 | Nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 3 prove | nsubj |
| 2 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 prove | aux |
| 3 | prove | prove | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 whistle | det |
| 5 | whistle | whistle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 blows | nsubj |
| 6 | blows | blow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 prove | ccomp |
| 7 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 blows | obj |
| 8 | away | away | ADV | _ | 6 blows | advmod |
| 9 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 15 brings | cc |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 key | det |
| 11 | key | key | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 brings | nsubj |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 14 table | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 table | det |
| 14 | table | table | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 key | nmod |
| 15 | brings | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 blows | conj |
| 16 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 troubles | compound |
| 17 | troubles | trouble | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 brings | obj |
| 18 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 21 beliefs | punct |
| 19 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 beliefs | nsubj |
| 20 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 beliefs | cop |
| 21 | beliefs | belief | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 prove | parataxis |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 facts | punct |
| 23 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 24 facts | advmod |
| 24 | facts | fact | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 beliefs | conj |
| 25 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 21 beliefs | punct |
| 26 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 32 follow | cc |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 house | case |
| 28 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 house | nmod:poss |
| 29 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 follow | obl |
| 30 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 32 follow | nsubj |
| 31 | simply | simply | ADV | _ | 32 follow | advmod |
| 32 | follow | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 prove | conj |
| 33 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 follow | obj |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 house | punct |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 way | det |
| 36 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 follow | obl:unmarked |
| 37 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 39 take | nsubj |
| 38 | 'd | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 39 take | aux |
| 39 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 36 way | acl:relcl |
| 40 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 41 shoes | nmod:poss |
| 41 | shoes | shoe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 39 take | obj |
| 42 | off | off | ADP | _ | 39 take | compound:prt |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 prove | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- neg
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | prove | can | Nobody | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | blow away | present | a whistle | money | away property | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent money=Patient | |||
| 3 | bring | present | a key on the table | money troubles | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent trouble=Theme | ||||
| 4 | is a | present | keys = key | beliefs and facts | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | follow | present | you | keys = key | granny's house | the way obl:unmarked; simply property | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent they=Theme in house=Trajectory | ||
| 6 | take off | would | you | your shoes | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shoe=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:ukrainian-street:030-grannys-rules-superstitions-good-manners.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 ×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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