The rumour that grows, sentence 24
Old buildings creak, and pipes knock when water moves through them; a boring explanation is more likely than a ghost.
Who acts: Old buildings, pipes, water, boring explanation · What happens: creak, knock, move, be
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 (Old buildings, pipes, water, boring explanation), 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 | Old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 buildings | amod |
| 2 | buildings | building | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 creak | nsubj |
| 3 | creak | creak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 knock | conj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 knock | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 knock | cc |
| 6 | pipes | pipe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 knock | nsubj |
| 7 | knock | knock | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 10 moves | mark |
| 9 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 moves | nsubj |
| 10 | moves | move | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 knock | advcl |
| 11 | through | through | ADP | _ | 12 them | case |
| 12 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 moves | obl |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 7 knock | punct |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 explanation | det |
| 15 | boring | boring | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 explanation | amod |
| 16 | explanation | explanation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 likely | nsubj |
| 17 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 likely | cop |
| 18 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 19 likely | advmod |
| 19 | likely | likely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 knock | parataxis |
| 20 | than | than | ADP | _ | 22 ghost | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 ghost | det |
| 22 | ghost | ghost | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 likely | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 creak | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | creak | present | Old buildings | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | knock | present | pipes | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 3 | move | present | water | through pipes = pipe | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme through they=Trajectory | ||||
| 4 | is | present | a boring explanation | than a ghost; likely 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:24.
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): R6-punct-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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