--- title: But a story passed along changes shape: a nip becomes «blood everywh… — Our street: who parked where and who won what · tree and pragmatics description: But a story passed along changes shape: a nip becomes «blood everywhere», four kittens become ten, and a guess becomes «everyone knows». Who acts: story, nip, four kittens, guess. A sentence of the lesson «Our street: who parked where and who won what» of the adult life course of Mova's primary scho --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/41-our-street-who-parked-where-and-who-won-what/2/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Adult life](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/) / [Our street: who parked where and who w…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/41-our-street-who-parked-where-and-who-won-what/) / 2 # Our street: who parked where and who won what, sentence 2 But a story passed along changes shape: a nip becomes «blood everywhere», four kittens become ten, and a guess becomes «everyone knows». **Who acts:** story, nip, four kittens, guess, everyone · **What happens:** pass, shape, become, know · **To what, where:** story, changes, blood · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «Our street: who parked where and who won what» of the adult life 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 (story, nip, four kittens, guess), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:adult-life:041-our-street-who-parked-where-and-who-won-what.lesson:2 # text = But a story passed along changes shape: a nip becomes «blood everywhere», four kittens become ten, and a guess becomes «everyone knows». # source = school lesson (ours) # course = adult-life # lesson = 041-our-street-who-parked-where-and-who-won-what.lesson # annotation = 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 ×2 1 But but CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 story story NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 4 passed pass VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 acl _ _ 5 along along ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 changes change NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obl _ _ 7 shape shape VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 : : PUNCT : _ 11 punct _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 nip nip NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 11 becomes become VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 12 « « PUNCT `` _ 13 punct _ _ 13 blood blood NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ _ 14 everywhere everywhere ADV RB PronType=Tot 13 advmod _ _ 15 » » PUNCT '' _ 14 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=13:punct 16 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=18:punct 17 four four NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 18 nummod _ _ 18 kittens kitten NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 nsubj _ _ 19 become become VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 20 ten ten NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 19 xcomp _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 23 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 guess guess NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nsubj _ _ 25 becomes become VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 26 « « PUNCT `` _ 28 punct _ _ 27 everyone everyone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Tot 28 nsubj _ _ 28 knows know VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 ccomp _ _ 29 » » PUNCT '' _ 28 punct _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **pass** | participle | | a story *not said here* | | changes | | | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme along change=Location | | 2 | **shape** | present | a story | | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | | 3 | **become** | present | a nip | blood | | | | | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Patient blood=Result | | 4 | **become** | present | four kittens | | | | | | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | | 5 | **become** | present | a guess | | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **know** *in a quote* | present | everyone | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: 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](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:adult-life:041-our-street-who-parked-where-and-who-won-what.lesson:2`. **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 ×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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