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title: A made-up story has no real memories behind it, so simple questions… — When the story falls apart · tree and pragmatics
description: A made-up story has no real memories behind it, so simple questions make it fall apart. Who acts: made story, simple questions, rung. A sentence of the lesson «When the story falls apart» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# When the story falls apart, sentence 21

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A made-up story has no real memories behind it, so simple questions make it fall apart.

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**Who acts:** made story, simple questions, rung · **What happens:** make up, have, make, fall apart · **To what, where:** real memories, rung

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This is a sentence of the lesson «When the story falls apart» of the everyday 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 (made story, simple questions, rung), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:431-when-the-story-falls-apart.lesson:21
# text = A made-up story has no real memories behind it, so simple questions make it fall apart.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 431-when-the-story-falls-apart.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): R4-particle ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
2	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	amod	_	_
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=4:punct
4	up	up	ADP	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	Agree=R4-particle|Haiku=2:compound
5	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	9	det	_	_
8	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	memories	memory	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
10	behind	behind	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nmod	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	so	so	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
14	simple	simple	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	questions	question	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj	_	_
16	make	make	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
17	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	_
18	fall	fall	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	xcomp	_	_
19	apart	apart	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make up** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **have** | present | a made story | no real memories |  | rung |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent memory=Patient |
| 3 | **make** | present | simple questions | rung |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **fall apart** | infinitive | rung *not said here* |  |  |  |  | apart *property* | vn break\_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient |

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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.

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**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:everyday:431-when-the-story-falls-apart.lesson:21`.

**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): R4-particle ×1, R6-punct-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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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