Who you are: lessons in words, not in a body, sentence 3

Think of reading a letter from a friend at the seaside: you can tell what the sea was like for her, but your feet stay dry.

Who acts: you, feet · What happens: think, read, tell, stay · To what, where: letter · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Who you are: lessons in words, not in a body» of the ai 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, feet), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Think	think	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	of	of	SCONJ	_	3 reading	mark
3	reading	read	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	1 Think	advcl
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 letter	det
5	letter	letter	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 reading	obj
6	from	from	ADP	_	8 friend	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 friend	det
8	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 letter	nmod
9	at	at	ADP	_	11 seaside	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 seaside	det
11	seaside	seaside	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 friend	nmod
12	:	:	PUNCT	_	15 tell	punct
13	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	15 tell	nsubj
14	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 tell	aux
15	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Think	parataxis
16	what	what	ADV	PronType=Int	20 like	advmod
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 sea	det
18	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 like	nsubj
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 like	cop
20	like	like	ADP	_	15 tell	ccomp
21	for	for	ADP	_	22 her	case
22	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 like	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 stay	punct
24	but	but	CCONJ	_	27 stay	cc
25	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 feet	nmod:poss
26	feet	feet	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 stay	nsubj
27	stay	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 tell	conj
28	dry	dry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 stay	xcomp
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Think	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	imperative	you not said here			vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	read	gerund	you not said here	a letter	from a friend at the seaside	vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent letter=Topic from friend=Source
3	tell speech: assert	can	you			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	stay	present	your feet		dry property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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, 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:ai:027-who-you-are-words-not-body.lesson:3.

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 ×3. 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.

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