The rumour that grows, sentence 16
When a story sounds huge, it usually got bigger on the way; the boring first version is usually closest to the truth.
Who acts: story, boring first version · What happens: sound, get, be · To what, where: way
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 (story, boring first version), 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 4 sounds | mark |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 story | det |
| 3 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sounds | nsubj |
| 4 | sounds | sound | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 got | advcl |
| 5 | huge | huge | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 sounds | xcomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 got | punct |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 got | nsubj |
| 8 | usually | usually | ADV | _ | 9 got | advmod |
| 9 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | bigger | big | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 9 got | xcomp |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 way | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 way | det |
| 13 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 got | obl |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 closest | punct |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 version | det |
| 16 | boring | boring | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 version | amod |
| 17 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 18 version | amod |
| 18 | version | version | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 closest | nsubj |
| 19 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 closest | cop |
| 20 | usually | usually | ADV | _ | 21 closest | advmod |
| 21 | closest | close | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 9 got | parataxis |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 truth | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 truth | det |
| 24 | truth | truth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 closest | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 got | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sound | present | a story | huge property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | get | past | story | the way | big, usually property | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent on way=Source | |||
| 3 | is | present | the boring first version | to the truth; close, usually property | tree rules |
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:16.
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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