--- title: Some legends hold a grain of truth: schools do keep records, and che… — School legends · tree and pragmatics description: Some legends hold a grain of truth: schools do keep records, and chewing gum may wake you up a little for a short time; but the scary or magic part is almost always added. Who acts: legends, schools, chewing. A sentence of the lesson «School legends» of the myths course of Mova's primary school with --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/24-school-legends/4/) [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/) / 4 # School legends, sentence 4 Some legends hold a grain of truth: schools do keep records, and chewing gum may wake you up a little for a short time; but the scary or magic part is almost always added. **Who acts:** legends, schools, chewing · **What happens:** hold, keep, chew, wake up, add · **To what, where:** grain, records, gum, you, scary part 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 (legends, schools, chewing), 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:4 # text = Some legends hold a grain of truth: schools do keep records, and chewing gum may wake you up a little for a short time; but the scary or magic part is almost always added. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Some some DET DT PronType=Ind 2 det _ _ 2 legends legend NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 hold hold VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 grain grain NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 6 of of ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 truth truth NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nmod _ _ 8 : : PUNCT : _ 11 punct _ _ 9 schools school NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 nsubj _ _ 10 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 aux _ _ 11 keep keep VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj 12 records record NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obj _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 15 chewing chew VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 18 csubj _ _ 16 gum gum NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ _ 17 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 18 aux _ _ 18 wake wake VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 conj _ _ 19 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 18 obj _ _ 20 up up ADP RP _ 18 compound:prt _ _ 21 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=18:obj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 23 for for ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 24 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 25 short short ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ _ 27 ; ; PUNCT : _ 37 punct _ _ 28 but but CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 30 scary scary ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 amod _ _ 31 or or CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 32 magic magic ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 conj _ _ 33 part part NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 nsubj:pass _ _ 34 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 37 aux:pass _ _ 35 almost almost ADV RB _ 36 advmod _ _ 36 always always ADV RB PronType=Tot 37 advmod _ _ 37 added add VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 conj _ _ 38 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **hold** | present | some legends | a grain of truth | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grain=Theme | | 2 | **keep** | present · do-support | schools | records | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent record=Theme | | 3 | **chew** | gerund | | gum | | | | | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gum=Patient | | 4 | **wake up** | may | chewing | you | | | time | a little *obl* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent you=Patient | | 5 | **add** *speech: assert* | present · passive | | the scary part | | | | always *property* | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | 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: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): 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: [School legends, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/24-school-legends/3/) - next →: [School legends, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/24-school-legends/5/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/24-school-legends/)