--- title: Before passing a story on, check it: a small nip can become a horror… — Our street: who parked where and who won what · tree and pragmatics description: Before passing a story on, check it: a small nip can become a horror story in three tellings. Who acts: you, small nip. A sentence of the lesson «Our street: who parked where and who won what» of the adult life course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clau --- [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/28/) [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/) / 28 # Our street: who parked where and who won what, sentence 28 Before passing a story on, check it: a small nip can become a horror story in three tellings. **Who acts:** you, small nip · **What happens:** pass on, check, become · **To what, where:** story, knock, horror story 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 (you, small nip), 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:28 # text = Before passing a story on, check it: a small nip can become a horror story in three tellings. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Before before SCONJ IN _ 2 mark _ _ 2 passing pass VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 7 advcl _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 story story NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 5 on on ADP RP _ 2 compound:prt _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 7 check check VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 obj _ _ 9 : : PUNCT : _ 14 punct _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 11 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 nip nip NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ _ 13 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 14 aux _ _ 14 become become VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:advcl 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 16 horror horror NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 compound _ _ 17 story story NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 xcomp _ _ 18 in in ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 20 nummod _ _ 20 tellings telling NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 nmod _ _ 21 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: command - act: suggest - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed form=imp, act=suggest | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **pass on** | gerund | you *not said here* | a story | | | | | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent story=Theme | | 2 | **check** | imperative | you *not said here* | knock | | | | | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | | 3 | **become** | can | a small nip | a horror story in three tellings | | | | | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | 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:28`. **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 ×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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