The rumour that grows, sentence 17
Ask "Who saw it?" and go back to the person who started it.
Who acts: you, person · What happens: ask, see, go back, start · To what, where: version · 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 (you, 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 | Ask | ask | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 saw | punct |
| 3 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 saw | nsubj |
| 4 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Ask | ccomp |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 saw | obj |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Ask | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Ask | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 go | cc |
| 9 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Ask | conj |
| 10 | back | back | ADV | _ | 9 go | advmod |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 person | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 person | det |
| 13 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 go | obl |
| 14 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 started | nsubj |
| 15 | started | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 person | acl:relcl |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 started | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Ask | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | imperative | you not said here | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | see in a quote | past | version | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | go back | infinitive | you not said here | to the person result | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to person=Result | ||||
| 4 | start | past | the person | version | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality |
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:17.
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): 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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