--- title: A story passed from person to person is like a snowball rolling down… — Our street: feuds, newcomers and stories that grow · tree and pragmatics description: A story passed from person to person is like a snowball rolling downhill: it picks up bits on the way. Who acts: snowball, story. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (snowball, story), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:adult-life:042-our-street-feuds-newcomers-and-stories-that-grow.lesson:0 # text = A story passed from person to person is like a snowball rolling downhill: it picks up bits on the way. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = adult-life # lesson = 042-our-street-feuds-newcomers-and-stories-that-grow.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): no change 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 story story NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 3 passed pass VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 2 acl _ _ 4 from from ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 person person NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 6 to to ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 person person NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nmod _ _ 8 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 cop _ _ 9 like like ADP IN _ 0 root _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 snowball snowball NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 12 rolling rolling VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 11 acl _ _ 13 downhill downhill ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 14 : : PUNCT : _ 16 punct _ _ 15 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 16 picks pick VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 acl:relcl _ _ 17 up up ADP RP _ 16 compound:prt _ _ 18 bits bit NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 obj _ _ 19 on on ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ _ 22 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - 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* | | | | from person to person | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from person=Initial\_Location | | 2 | **rolling** | gerund | a snowball *not said here* | | | | | downhill *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **pick up** | present | story | bits | | the way | | | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bit=Topic | 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:042-our-street-feuds-newcomers-and-stories-that-grow.lesson:0`. **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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