--- title: A true story usually stays much the same each time it is told; a mad… — Stories that change · tree and pragmatics description: A true story usually stays much the same each time it is told; a made-up one often changes. Who acts: true story, time, one. A sentence of the lesson «Stories that change» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/449-stories-that-change/36/) [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/) / [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/) / [Stories that change](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/449-stories-that-change/) / 36 # Stories that change, sentence 36 A true story usually stays much the same each time it is told; a made-up one often changes. **Who acts:** true story, time, one · **What happens:** stay, tell, make up, change · **To what, where:** story · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «Stories that change» 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 (true story, time, one), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:449-stories-that-change.lesson:36 # text = A true story usually stays much the same each time it is told; a made-up one often changes. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 449-stories-that-change.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): R2-punct-next ×1, R4-particle ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 true true ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 story story NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 4 usually usually ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 5 stays stay VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 much much ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:ccomp 9 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 10 det _ _ 10 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl:unmarked _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:obl:unmarked 11 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj:pass _ _ 12 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 aux:pass _ _ 13 told tell VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 10 acl:relcl _ _ 14 ; ; PUNCT : _ 21 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=5:punct 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 16 made make VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 19 amod _ _ 17 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 18 punct _ _ 18 up up ADP RP _ 16 compound:prt _ Agree=R4-particle|Haiku=16:compound 19 one one PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 21 nsubj _ _ 20 often often ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 21 changes change VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj 22 . . PUNCT . _ 5 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 | **stay** | present | a true story | | | | time | same, usually *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present · passive | each time *not said here* | story | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | | 3 | **make up** | participle | | | | | | | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **change** | present | one | | | | | often *property* | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «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:449-stories-that-change.lesson:36`. **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): R2-punct-next ×1, R4-particle ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Stories that change, 35](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/449-stories-that-change/35/) - next →: [Stories that change, 37](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/449-stories-that-change/37/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/449-stories-that-change/)