Reading for pleasure and the reading book at home, sentence 24
Talking about books and swapping them with friends makes reading more fun.
Who acts: Talking · What happens: talk, swap, make, read · To what, where: words, more fun
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 (Talking), 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 | Talking | talk | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 makes | csubj |
| 2 | about | about | ADP | _ | 3 books | case |
| 3 | books | book | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Talking | obl |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 swapping | cc |
| 5 | swapping | swap | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 1 Talking | conj |
| 6 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 swapping | obj |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 friends | case |
| 8 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 swapping | obl |
| 9 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | reading | read | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 makes | xcomp |
| 11 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 12 fun | amod |
| 12 | fun | fun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 reading | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 makes | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | talk | gerund | about books | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about book=Topic | |||||
| 2 | swap | gerund | words = word | with friends | vn exchange-13.6.1 «NP V NP PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent they=Theme with friend=Co-Agent | ||||
| 3 | make | present | Talking | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | read | gerund | Talking not said here | more fun | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fun=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:24.
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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