The rumour that grows, sentence 9
Once kids hear the toilets are haunted, a dripping tap and a creaky door "prove" it.
Who acts: kids, dripping tap · What happens: hear, haunt, drip, prove · To what, where: toilets, door · 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 (kids, dripping tap), 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 | Once | once | SCONJ | _ | 3 hear | mark |
| 2 | kids | kid | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 hear | nsubj |
| 3 | hear | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 prove | advcl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 toilets | det |
| 5 | toilets | toilet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 haunted | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 haunted | aux:pass |
| 7 | haunted | haunt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 hear | ccomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 prove | punct |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 tap | det |
| 10 | dripping | drip | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 tap | amod |
| 11 | tap | tap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 prove | nsubj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 door | cc |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 door | det |
| 14 | creaky | creaky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 door | amod |
| 15 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 tap | conj |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 prove | punct |
| 17 | prove | prove | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 prove | punct |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 prove | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 prove | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | present | kids | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | haunt | present · passive | the toilets | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | drip | gerund | vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Source | ||||||
| 4 | prove in a quote | present | a dripping tap and a creaky door | door | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
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:9.
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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