Reading for pleasure and the reading book at home, sentence 6

Kai picks a library book far too hard, and the librarian says, «Try five fingers.» Open a page in the middle and read it; put up one finger for each word you can't read or don't understand.

Who acts: Kai, librarian, you · What happens: pick, say, try, open, read, put up · To what, where: library book, five fingers, page, middle, book, one finger · 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 (Kai, librarian, 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	Kai	Kai	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 picks	nsubj
2	picks	pick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 book	det
4	library	library	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 book	compound
5	book	book	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 picks	obj
6	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	8 hard	advmod
7	too	too	ADV	_	8 hard	advmod
8	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 book	amod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 says	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 says	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 librarian	det
12	librarian	librarian	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 says	nsubj
13	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 picks	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 Try	punct
15	«	«	PUNCT	_	16 Try	punct
16	Try	try	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 says	ccomp
17	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	18 fingers	nummod
18	fingers	finger	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 Try	obj
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 fingers	punct
20	»	»	PUNCT	_	16 Try	punct
21	Open	open	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	16 Try	parataxis
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 page	det
23	page	page	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 Open	obj
24	in	in	ADP	_	26 middle	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 middle	det
26	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 Open	obl
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 read	cc
28	read	read	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 Open	conj
29	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 read	obj
30	;	;	PUNCT	_	31 put	punct
31	put	put	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	28 read	conj
32	up	up	ADP	_	31 put	compound:prt
33	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	34 finger	nummod
34	finger	finger	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 put	obj
35	for	for	ADP	_	37 word	case
36	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	37 word	det
37	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 put	obl
38	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	41 read	nsubj
39	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	41 read	aux
40	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	41 read	advmod
41	read	read	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	37 word	acl:relcl
42	or	or	CCONJ	_	45 understand	cc
43	do	do	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	45 understand	aux
44	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	45 understand	advmod
45	understand	understand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	41 read	conj
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 picks	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	pick	present	Kai	a library book			vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent book=Patient
2	say speech: assert	present	the librarian				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	try in a quote	infinitive		five fingers			tree rules
4	open	infinitive		a page	the middle		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent page=Theme in middle=Location
5	read	infinitive		book			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic
6	put up	participle		one finger		for each word	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent finger=Goal
7	not read	can	you	each word not said here			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Topic
8	not understand	infinitive · do-support	you not said here				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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:6.

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. 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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