The rumour that grows, sentence 18
Losing or changing one small word can change a whole meaning; grown-ups call this taking things out of context.
Who acts: Losing, grown ups · What happens: lose, change, call, take · To what, where: one small word, whole meaning, this, things, context · 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 (Losing, grown ups), 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 | Losing | lose | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 change | csubj |
| 2 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 3 changing | cc |
| 3 | changing | change | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 1 Losing | conj |
| 4 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 word | nummod |
| 5 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 word | amod |
| 6 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 changing | obj |
| 7 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 change | aux |
| 8 | change | change | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 meaning | det |
| 10 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 meaning | amod |
| 11 | meaning | meaning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 change | obj |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 grown | punct |
| 13 | grown | grow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 ups | amod |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 ups | punct |
| 15 | ups | up | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 call | nsubj |
| 16 | call | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 change | parataxis |
| 17 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 16 call | obj |
| 18 | taking | take | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 16 call | advcl |
| 19 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 taking | obj |
| 20 | out | out | ADP | _ | 22 context | case |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 context | case |
| 22 | context | context | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 taking | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 change | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lose | gerund | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | change | gerund | one small word | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Patient | |||||
| 3 | change | can | Losing | a whole meaning | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meaning=Patient | ||||
| 4 | call | present | grown ups | this | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent this=Recipient | ||||
| 5 | take | gerund | grown ups not said here | things | context | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent thing=Theme out context=Initial_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:18.
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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