The rumour that grows, sentence 15
Chinese whispers (also called telephone) is a game that shows how a message changes as it passes along a line.
Who acts: Chinese whispers, game, message · What happens: call, be, show, change, pass · To what, where: telephone, game, line · 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 (Chinese whispers, game, message), 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 | Chinese | Chinese | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 whispers | amod |
| 2 | whispers | whisper | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 game | nsubj |
| 3 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 6 telephone | punct |
| 4 | also | also | ADV | _ | 5 called | advmod |
| 5 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 telephone | acl |
| 6 | telephone | telephone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 whispers | appos |
| 7 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 6 telephone | punct |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 game | cop |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 game | det |
| 10 | game | game | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 11 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 shows | nsubj |
| 12 | shows | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 game | acl:relcl |
| 13 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 16 changes | advmod |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 message | det |
| 15 | message | message | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 changes | nsubj |
| 16 | changes | change | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 shows | ccomp |
| 17 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 19 passes | mark |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 passes | nsubj |
| 19 | passes | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 changes | advcl |
| 20 | along | along | ADP | _ | 22 line | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 line | det |
| 22 | line | line | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 passes | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 game | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | participle | telephone not said here | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is a | present | Chinese whispers | a game | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | show | present | a game | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | change | present | a message | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | pass | present | message | a line | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme along line=Location |
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:15.
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): no change. 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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