Show day: the exhibition, the concert and the big arts quiz, sentence 13

When an actor forgets a line, making something up to keep the scene going is called improvising, and audiences usually forgive it.

Who acts: actor, scene, making, audiences · What happens: forget, make up, keep, go, call, improvise · To what, where: line, something, scene · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Show day: the exhibition, the concert and the big arts quiz» of the arts 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 (actor, scene, making, audiences), 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	When	when	SCONJ	_	4 forgets	mark
2	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 actor	det
3	actor	actor	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 forgets	nsubj
4	forgets	forget	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 called	advcl
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 line	det
6	line	line	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 forgets	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 making	punct
8	making	make	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 called	csubj:pass
9	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	8 making	obj
10	up	up	ADP	_	8 making	compound:prt
11	to	to	PART	_	12 keep	mark
12	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 making	advcl
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 scene	det
14	scene	scene	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 keep	obj
15	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 keep	xcomp
16	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 called	aux:pass
17	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
18	improvising	improvise	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	17 called	xcomp
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 forgive	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 forgive	cc
21	audiences	audience	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 forgive	nsubj
22	usually	usually	ADV	_	23 forgive	advmod
23	forgive	forgive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 called	conj
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 forgive	obj
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 called	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	forget	present	a actor	a line		tree rules
2	make up	gerund		something		vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme something=Pivot
3	keep	to-infinitive		the scene		tree rules
4	go	gerund	the scene not said here			vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	call speech: assert	present · passive	making			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: clause=Topic
6	improvise	gerund	making not said here			vn create-26.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	forgive	present	audiences	scene	usually property	vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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:arts:040-show-day-the-exhibition-the-concert-and-the-big-arts-quiz.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): R1-cc-next ×1, R7-rel-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.

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