Words to know, Years 3–4 (the statutory list, by idea), sentence 1
They are not random hard words; most are words children need in their own writing all the time.
Who acts: children, most, random hard words · What happens: not be, be, need, write · To what, where: random hard words, words, own writing
This is a sentence of the lesson «Words to know, Years 3–4 (the statutory list, by idea)» 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 (children, most, random hard words), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 words | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 words | cop |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 words | advmod |
| 4 | random | random | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 words | amod |
| 5 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 words | amod |
| 6 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 need | nsubj |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 children | punct |
| 8 | most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 10 words | nsubj |
| 9 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 words | cop |
| 10 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 words | parataxis |
| 11 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 need | nsubj |
| 12 | need | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 writing | case |
| 14 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 writing | nmod:poss |
| 15 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 writing | amod |
| 16 | writing | writing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 need | obl |
| 17 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 19 time | det:predet |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 time | det |
| 19 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 need | obl:unmarked |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 words | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=assert
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is a | present | children = child | random hard words | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | most | words | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | need | present | random hard words | children's own writing | time | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||
| 4 | write | children = child | nom writing «act 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, 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:013-words-to-know-years-3-4.lesson:1.
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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, 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.
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