--- title: A school legend is usually told about "a kid at my cousin's school",… — School legends · tree and pragmatics description: A school legend is usually told about "a kid at my cousin's school", never about someone you can actually ask; that friend-of-a-friend detail is the first clue it may be made up. Who acts: you, friend friend detail, first clue. A sentence of the lesson «School legends» of the myths course of Mova's --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/24-school-legends/2/) [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/) / [Myths](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/) / [School legends](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/24-school-legends/) / 2 # School legends, sentence 2 A school legend is usually told about "a kid at my cousin's school", never about someone you can actually ask; that friend-of-a-friend detail is the first clue it may be made up. **Who acts:** you, friend friend detail, first clue · **What happens:** tell, ask, be, make up · **To what, where:** school legend, first clue, detail · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «School legends» of the myths 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 (you, friend friend detail, first clue), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:myths:024-school-legends.lesson:2 # text = A school legend is usually told about "a kid at my cousin's school", never about someone you can actually ask; that friend-of-a-friend detail is the first clue it may be made up. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = myths # lesson = 024-school-legends.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): R5-strong ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 school school NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 legend legend NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj:pass _ _ 4 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 aux:pass _ _ 5 usually usually ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 6 told tell VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 7 about about ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 8 " " PUNCT `` _ 10 punct _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 kid kid NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 11 at at ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 12 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 13 nmod:poss _ _ 13 cousin cousin NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nmod:poss _ _ 14 's 's PART POS _ 13 case _ _ 15 school school NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nmod _ _ 16 " " PUNCT '' _ 10 punct _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 18 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 20 advmod _ _ 19 about about ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 10 conj _ _ 21 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 22 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 24 aux _ _ 23 actually actually ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 24 ask ask VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 20 acl:relcl _ _ 25 ; ; PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 26 that that DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 34 det _ _ 27 friend friend NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 compound _ _ 28 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 34 punct _ _ 29 of of ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 30 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 29 punct _ _ 31 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 33 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=34:det 32 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 31 punct _ _ 33 friend friend NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 compound _ _ 34 detail detail NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 nsubj _ _ 35 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 38 cop _ _ 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 37 first first ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 38 amod _ _ 38 clue clue NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 parataxis _ _ 39 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 42 nsubj:pass _ _ 40 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 42 aux _ _ 41 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 42 aux:pass _ _ 42 made make VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 38 acl:relcl _ _ 43 up up ADP RP _ 42 compound:prt _ _ 44 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed voice=narrator | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present · passive | | a school legend | | | | about a kid at my cousin's school; usually *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: subject=Recipient about kid=Topic | | 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* | can | you | | | | | actually *property* | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **is a** | present | that friend friend detail | the first clue | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **make up** | may · passive | the first clue *not said here* | detail | | | | | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Pivot | 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:myths:024-school-legends.lesson:2`. **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): R5-strong ×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: [School legends, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/24-school-legends/1/) - next →: [School legends, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/24-school-legends/3/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/24-school-legends/)