--- title: The idea that "Eskimos have 100 words for snow" grew as it was retol… — Where did you read that? Checking sources · tree and pragmatics description: The idea that "Eskimos have 100 words for snow" grew as it was retold; Inuit and Yupik languages build long words from parts, so counting their "words" for snow is not simple. Who acts: Eskimos, idea, Inuit. A sentence of the lesson «Where did you read that? Checking sources» of the myths course of --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/28-where-did-you-read-that-checking-sources/13/) [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/) / [Where did you read that? Checking sour…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/28-where-did-you-read-that-checking-sources/) / 13 # Where did you read that? Checking sources, sentence 13 The idea that "Eskimos have 100 words for snow" grew as it was retold; Inuit and Yupik languages build long words from parts, so counting their "words" for snow is not simple. **Who acts:** Eskimos, idea, Inuit · **What happens:** have, grow, retell, build, count, not be · **To what, where:** 100 words, idea, long words, parts, words This is a sentence of the lesson «Where did you read that? Checking sources» 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 (Eskimos, idea, Inuit), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:myths:028-where-did-you-read-that-checking-sources.lesson:13 # text = The idea that "Eskimos have 100 words for snow" grew as it was retold; Inuit and Yupik languages build long words from parts, so counting their "words" for snow is not simple. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = myths # lesson = 028-where-did-you-read-that-checking-sources.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 ×3, R6-punct-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 idea idea NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ _ 3 that that SCONJ IN _ 6 mark _ _ 4 " " PUNCT `` _ 6 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=5:punct 5 Eskimos eskimo PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 6 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=6:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur 6 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 acl _ _ 7 100 100 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 8 nummod _ _ 8 words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obj _ _ 9 for for ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 snow snow NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nmod _ _ 11 " " PUNCT '' _ 6 punct _ _ 12 grew grow VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 22 parataxis _ _ 13 as as SCONJ IN _ 16 mark _ _ 14 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj:pass _ _ 15 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 aux:pass _ _ 16 retold retell VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 12 advcl _ _ 17 ; ; PUNCT : _ 18 punct _ _ 18 Inuit inuit NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nsubj _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 20 Yupik yupik NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=21:compound 21 languages language NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 conj _ _ 22 build build VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 23 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 obj _ _ 25 from from ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 parts part NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=24:nmod 27 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 28 so so ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 29 counting count VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 22 advcl _ _ 30 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 32 nmod:poss _ _ 31 " " PUNCT `` _ 32 punct _ _ 32 words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 obj _ _ 33 " " PUNCT '' _ 32 punct _ _ 34 for for SCONJ IN _ 38 mark _ _ 35 snow snow NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=38:nsubj 36 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 38 cop _ _ 37 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 38 advmod _ _ 38 simple simple ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 ccomp _ _ 39 . . PUNCT . _ 12 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=22:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** *in a quote* | present | Eskimos | 100 words | | | | for snow | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Patient | | 2 | **grow** | past | the idea | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **retell** | past · passive | | idea | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **build** | present | Inuit and Yupik and languages | long words | | parts | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V PP»: agent=Asset word=Product from part=Material | | 5 | **count** | gerund | Inuit and Yupik and languages *not said here* | Inuit's words | | | | snow *obl* | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Theme | | 6 | **not** **is** | present | Inuit and Yupik and languages *not said here* | | | | | simple *property* | tree rules | | 7 | **word** *in a quote* | | Inuit | | | | | | nom word «communication transitive»: poss=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:myths:028-where-did-you-read-that-checking-sources.lesson:13`. **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 ×3, R6-punct-agree ×2, 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: [Where did you read that? Checking sour…, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/28-where-did-you-read-that-checking-sources/12/) - next →: [Where did you read that? 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