The rumour that grows, sentence 1
Each person told the story a little bigger, and nobody checked the start.
Who acts: person, nobody · What happens: tell, check · To what, where: story, start · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «The rumour that grows» of the world 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 (person, nobody), 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 | Each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 person | det |
| 2 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 told | nsubj |
| 3 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 story | det |
| 5 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 told | obj |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 little | det |
| 7 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 bigger | obl |
| 8 | bigger | big | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 5 story | amod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 checked | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 checked | cc |
| 11 | nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 12 checked | nsubj |
| 12 | checked | check | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 told | conj |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 start | det |
| 14 | start | start | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 checked | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 told | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | past | each person | the story | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent story=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | check | past | nobody | the start | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent start=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:world:167-the-rumour-that-grows.lesson:1.
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): R2-punct-next ×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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