--- title: A made-up story has no real memories behind it, so questions knock i… — When the story falls apart · tree and pragmatics description: A made-up story has no real memories behind it, so questions knock it over; the truth stands up to any question. Who acts: made story, questions, truth. 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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 (made story, questions, truth), 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:4 # text = A made-up story has no real memories behind it, so questions knock it over; the truth stands up to any question. # 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, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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 , _ 15 punct _ _ 13 so so ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 14 questions question NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 nsubj _ _ 15 knock knock VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:conj 16 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 obj _ _ 17 over over ADP RP _ 15 compound:prt _ _ 18 ; ; PUNCT : _ 21 punct _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 truth truth NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nsubj _ _ 21 stands stand VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 22 up up ADP RP _ 21 compound:prt _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=21:compound:prt|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 23 to to ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 any any DET DT PronType=Ind 25 det _ _ 25 question question NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ _ 26 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | 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 | | centre | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent memory=Patient | | 3 | **knock over** | present | questions | story | | | | | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent it=Patient | | 4 | **stand up** | present | the truth | | | | | to any question | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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:everyday:431-when-the-story-falls-apart.lesson:4`. **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, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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/). - ← previous: [When the story falls apart, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/431-when-the-story-falls-apart/2/) - next →: [When the story falls apart, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/431-when-the-story-falls-apart/5/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/431-when-the-story-falls-apart/)