--- title: Some old stories are half true: Troy was a real city, but the wooden… — Ancient times and famous stories · tree and pragmatics description: Some old stories are half true: Troy was a real city, but the wooden horse is a legend; frogs really were dropped into milk in some villages, but nobody proved it kept the milk fresh. Who acts: old stories, Troy, wooden horse, nobody. 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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 (old stories, Troy, wooden horse, nobody), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:myths:021-ancient-times-and-famous-stories.lesson:4 # text = Some old stories are half true: Troy was a real city, but the wooden horse is a legend; frogs really were dropped into milk in some villages, but nobody proved it kept the milk fresh. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = myths # lesson = 021-ancient-times-and-famous-stories.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 ×2 1 Some some DET DT PronType=Ind 3 det _ _ 2 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 stories story NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nsubj _ _ 4 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 5 half half ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac 6 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac 6 true true ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 7 : : PUNCT : _ 6 punct _ _ 8 Troy Troy PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ _ 9 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 cop _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 11 real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 city city NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:conj 13 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 14 but but CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 16 wooden wooden ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 horse horse NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nsubj _ _ 18 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 cop _ _ 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 legend legend NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 conj _ _ 21 ; ; PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 22 frogs frog NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 nsubj:pass _ _ 23 really really ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 24 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 25 aux:pass _ _ 25 dropped drop VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 6 parataxis _ _ 26 into into ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 27 milk milk NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl _ _ 28 in in ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 30 det _ _ 30 villages village NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 obl _ _ 31 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 32 but but CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 33 nobody nobody PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 34 nsubj _ _ 34 proved prove VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 25 conj _ _ 35 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 36 nsubj _ _ 36 kept keep VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 34 ccomp _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 milk milk NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obj _ _ 39 fresh fresh ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 xcomp _ _ 40 . . 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 | **is** | present | some old stories | | | | | half, true *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **is a** | past | Troy | a real city but a legend | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **is a** | present | the wooden horse | a legend | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **drop** | past · passive | | frogs | | milk | | in some villages | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: subject=Theme into milk=Destination in village=Initial\_Location | | 5 | **prove** | past | nobody | | | | | | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 6 | **keep** | past | horse | the milk | | | | fresh *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent milk=Theme | 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. 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