The rumour that grows, sentence 14
A rumour is a story passed on without being checked; it often grows or changes each time it is told.
Who acts: rumour, time · What happens: be, pass on, check, grow, change, tell · To what, where: story, rumour · 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 (rumour, time), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 rumour | det |
| 2 | rumour | rumour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 story | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 story | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 story | det |
| 5 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | passed | pass | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 story | acl |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 passed | compound:prt |
| 8 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 10 checked | mark |
| 9 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 checked | aux:pass |
| 10 | checked | check | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 passed | advcl |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 grows | punct |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 grows | nsubj |
| 13 | often | often | ADV | _ | 14 grows | advmod |
| 14 | grows | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 story | parataxis |
| 15 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 16 changes | cc |
| 16 | changes | change | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 grows | conj |
| 17 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 18 time | det |
| 18 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 grows | obl:unmarked |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 told | nsubj:pass |
| 20 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 told | aux:pass |
| 21 | told | tell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 time | acl:relcl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 story | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | a rumour | a story | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | pass on | participle | a story not said here | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | check | gerund · passive | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP» | ||||||
| 4 | grow | present | rumour | time | often property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 5 | change | present | rumour not said here | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | tell speech: assert | present · passive | each time not said here | rumour | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |
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:14.
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): R1-cc-next ×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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