Homophones and near-homophones, sentence 12
Say the long form; if it fits, use the apostrophe.
Who acts: you, form · What happens: say, fit, use · To what, where: long form, apostrophe · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Homophones and near-homophones» of the english 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, form), 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 | Say | say | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 form | det |
| 3 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 form | amod |
| 4 | form | form | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Say | obj |
| 5 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 use | punct |
| 6 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 8 fits | mark |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 fits | nsubj |
| 8 | fits | fit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 use | advcl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 fits | punct |
| 10 | use | use | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Say | parataxis |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 apostrophe | det |
| 12 | apostrophe | apostrophe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 use | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Say | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- command
- act
- request
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | imperative | you not said here | the long form | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent form=Topic | ||||
| 2 | fit a condition, not said to happen | present | form | vn adjust-26.9 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | use | infinitive | the apostrophe | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent apostrophe=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, 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:english:011-homophones-and-near-homophones.lesson:12.
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 ×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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