The rumour that grows, sentence 3
Like the game of Chinese whispers (also called telephone), every telling can change it: words get dropped, details get added, and the boring version gets more exciting.
Who acts: Chinese whispers, telling, boring version · What happens: call, change, drop, add, get · To what, where: telephone, words, details · 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, telling, boring 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 | Like | like | ADP | _ | 3 game | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 game | det |
| 3 | game | game | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 change | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 whispers | case |
| 5 | Chinese | Chinese | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 whispers | amod |
| 6 | whispers | whisper | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 game | nmod |
| 7 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 9 called | punct |
| 8 | also | also | ADV | _ | 9 called | advmod |
| 9 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 whispers | acl |
| 10 | telephone | telephone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 called | xcomp |
| 11 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 9 called | punct |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 game | punct |
| 13 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 14 telling | det |
| 14 | telling | telling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 change | nsubj |
| 15 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 change | aux |
| 16 | change | change | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 change | obj |
| 18 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 21 dropped | punct |
| 19 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 dropped | nsubj:pass |
| 20 | get | get | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 dropped | aux:pass |
| 21 | dropped | drop | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 change | parataxis |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 added | punct |
| 23 | details | detail | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 added | nsubj:pass |
| 24 | get | get | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 added | aux:pass |
| 25 | added | add | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 dropped | conj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 gets | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 gets | cc |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 version | det |
| 29 | boring | boring | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 version | amod |
| 30 | version | version | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 gets | nsubj |
| 31 | gets | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 change | advcl |
| 32 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 33 exciting | advmod |
| 33 | exciting | exciting | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 gets | xcomp |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 change | 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 | Chinese whispers not said here | telephone | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | change | can | every telling | telephone | like the game of Chinese whispers | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | |||
| 3 | drop | present · passive | words | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 4 | add speech: assert | present · passive | details | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 5 | get | present | the boring version | exciting property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
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:3.
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 ×2. 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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