Reading for pleasure and the reading book at home, sentence 23

A free reader chooses any book from the library instead of banded books, and still needs to read a little every day.

Who acts: free reader · What happens: choose, band, need, read · To what, where: book, library, little

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 (free reader), 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 reader	det
2	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 reader	amod
3	reader	reader	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 chooses	nsubj
4	chooses	choose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	6 book	det
6	book	book	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 chooses	obj
7	from	from	ADP	_	9 library	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 library	det
9	library	library	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 book	nmod
10	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=ADP	13 books	case
11	of	of	ADP	_	10 instead	fixed
12	banded	band	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 books	amod
13	books	book	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 book	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 needs	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 needs	cc
16	still	still	ADV	_	17 needs	advmod
17	needs	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 chooses	conj
18	to	to	PART	_	19 read	mark
19	read	read	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 needs	xcomp
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 little	det
21	little	little	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 read	obj
22	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	23 day	det
23	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 read	obl:unmarked
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 chooses	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	choose	present	a free reader	any book	the library		instead banded books	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent book=Theme from library=Source
2	band	participle						vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
3	need	present	a free reader not said here			still		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
4	read not said to happen	to-infinitive	a free reader not said here	a little		day		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent little=Topic

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:23.

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): no change. 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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