Words to know, Years 5–6 (the statutory list, by idea), sentence 18
A polite letter ending «Yours sincerely» that suggests a sufficient number of chairs uses three list words at once, so writing a short letter is great practice for spelling and style together.
Who acts: polite letter, writing · What happens: end, suggest, use, write, be · To what, where: Yours, sufficient number, three list words, short letter, great practice
This is a sentence of the lesson «Words to know, Years 5–6 (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 (polite letter, writing), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 letter | det |
| 2 | polite | polite | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 letter | amod |
| 3 | letter | letter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 uses | nsubj |
| 4 | ending | end | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 letter | acl |
| 5 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 6 Yours | punct |
| 6 | Yours | your | PRON | Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 ending | obl |
| 7 | sincerely | sincerely | ADV | _ | 8 » | advmod |
| 8 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 6 Yours | punct |
| 9 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 suggests | nsubj |
| 10 | suggests | suggest | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 letter | acl:relcl |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 number | det |
| 12 | sufficient | sufficient | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 number | amod |
| 13 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 suggests | obj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 chairs | case |
| 15 | chairs | chair | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 number | nmod |
| 16 | uses | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 19 words | nummod |
| 18 | list | list | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 words | compound |
| 19 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 uses | obj |
| 20 | at | at | ADP | _ | 21 once | case |
| 21 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 16 uses | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 uses | punct |
| 23 | so | so | ADV | _ | 30 practice | advmod |
| 24 | writing | write | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 30 practice | csubj |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 letter | det |
| 26 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 letter | amod |
| 27 | letter | letter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 writing | obj |
| 28 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 practice | cop |
| 29 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 practice | amod |
| 30 | practice | practice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 uses | parataxis |
| 31 | for | for | ADP | _ | 32 spelling | case |
| 32 | spelling | spelling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 practice | nmod |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 style | cc |
| 34 | style | style | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 spelling | conj |
| 35 | together | together | ADV | _ | 34 style | advmod |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 uses | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | end | gerund | a polite letter not said here | Yours | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | suggest speech: suggest | present | a polite letter | a sufficient number of chairs | vn say-37.7-1-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent number=Topic | ||||
| 3 | use | present | a polite letter | three list words | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Patient | ||||
| 4 | write | gerund | a short letter | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent letter=Theme | |||||
| 5 | is a | present | writing | great practice | for spelling and style | tree rules |
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:014-words-to-know-years-5-6.lesson:18.
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, R6-punct-agree ×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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