Reading for pleasure and the reading book at home, sentence 18

Audiobooks build vocabulary, understanding and a love of stories, but they do not practise reading printed words, so children use both.

Who acts: Audiobooks, vocabulary, children · What happens: build, not practise, read, print, use, love · To what, where: vocabulary, printed words, both, stories

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 (Audiobooks, vocabulary, children), 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	Audiobooks	audiobook	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 build	nsubj
2	build	build	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	vocabulary	vocabulary	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 build	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 understanding	punct
5	understanding	understanding	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 vocabulary	conj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 love	cc
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 love	det
8	love	love	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 understanding	conj
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 stories	case
10	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 love	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 practise	punct
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 practise	cc
13	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 practise	nsubj
14	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 practise	aux
15	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	16 practise	advmod
16	practise	practise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 build	conj
17	reading	read	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	16 practise	xcomp
18	printed	print	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 words	amod
19	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 reading	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 use	punct
21	so	so	ADV	_	23 use	advmod
22	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 use	nsubj
23	use	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 reading	conj
24	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	23 use	obj
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 build	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	build	present	Audiobooks	vocabulary and understanding and a love of stories	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset vocabulary=Product
2	not practise	present · do-support	vocabulary		tree rules
3	read	gerund	vocabulary not said here	printed words	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Topic
4	print	participle			vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	use	present	children	both	vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent both=Patient
6	love			stories	nom love «feeling transitive»: of=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:016-reading-for-pleasure-and-the-reading-book-at-home.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 ×2, 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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