Reading for pleasure and the reading book at home, sentence 25
Nobody becomes a great reader overnight; readers grow slowly, a little every day.
Who acts: Nobody, readers · What happens: become, grow · To what, where: great reader
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 (Nobody, readers), 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 | Nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 2 becomes | nsubj |
| 2 | becomes | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 reader | det |
| 4 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 reader | amod |
| 5 | reader | reader | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 becomes | xcomp |
| 6 | overnight | overnight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 becomes | obl:unmarked |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 9 grow | punct |
| 8 | readers | reader | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 grow | nsubj |
| 9 | grow | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 becomes | parataxis |
| 10 | slowly | slowly | ADV | _ | 9 grow | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 day | punct |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 little | det |
| 13 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 day | amod |
| 14 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 15 day | det |
| 15 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 grow | obl:unmarked |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 becomes | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | become | present | Nobody | a great reader | overnight obl:unmarked | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | |||
| 2 | grow | present | readers | day | slowly property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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:25.
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): R5-strong ×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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