Reading for pleasure and the reading book at home, sentence 14
Reading for pleasure means choosing to read because you enjoy it.
Who acts: Reading, you · What happens: read, mean, choose, enjoy · To what, where: pleasure · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Reading for pleasure and the reading book at home» 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 (Reading, you), 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 | Reading | read | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 means | csubj |
| 2 | for | for | ADP | _ | 3 pleasure | case |
| 3 | pleasure | pleasure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Reading | obl |
| 4 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | choosing | choose | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 means | ccomp |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 read | mark |
| 7 | read | read | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 choosing | xcomp |
| 8 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 10 enjoy | mark |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 enjoy | nsubj |
| 10 | enjoy | enjoy | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 read | advcl |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 enjoy | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 means | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | read | gerund | for pleasure | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | mean | present | Reading | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | choose | gerund | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | read | to-infinitive | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | enjoy | present | you | pleasure | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus |
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:016-reading-for-pleasure-and-the-reading-book-at-home.lesson:14.
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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