The rumour that grows, sentence 11
The fix: go back to the start, ask the person who was there, and trust the right source, like the school office.
Who acts: fix, person · What happens: go back, ask, be, trust · To what, where: person, right source
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 (fix, person), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 fix | det |
| 2 | fix | fix | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 ask | nsubj |
| 3 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 4 go | punct |
| 4 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 fix | acl |
| 5 | back | back | ADV | _ | 4 go | advmod |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 start | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 start | det |
| 8 | start | start | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 back | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 ask | punct |
| 10 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 person | det |
| 12 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 ask | obj |
| 13 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 there | nsubj |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 there | cop |
| 15 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 12 person | acl:relcl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 trust | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 trust | cc |
| 18 | trust | trust | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 ask | conj |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 source | det |
| 20 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 source | amod |
| 21 | source | source | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 trust | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 office | punct |
| 23 | like | like | ADP | _ | 26 office | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 office | det |
| 25 | school | school | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 office | compound |
| 26 | office | office | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 source | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 fix | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go back | infinitive | the fix not said here | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | infinitive | the fix | the person | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent person=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | is | past | the person | there property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | trust | infinitive | the fix not said here | the right source | like the school office | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent source=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:11.
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): R6-punct-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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