Retrieval: finding the answer in the text, sentence 0
A retrieval question asks for something the text says clearly.
Who acts: retrieval question, text · What happens: ask, say · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Retrieval: finding the answer in the text» 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 (retrieval question, text), 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 question | det |
| 2 | retrieval | retrieval | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 question | compound |
| 3 | question | question | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 asks | nsubj |
| 4 | asks | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 something | case |
| 6 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 4 asks | obl |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 text | det |
| 8 | text | text | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 says | nsubj |
| 9 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 something | acl:relcl |
| 10 | clearly | clearly | ADV | _ | 9 says | advmod |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 asks | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | present | a retrieval question | for something | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | present | the text | clearly property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
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:017-retrieval-finding-the-answer-in-the-text.lesson:0.
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.
See the release 0.4.
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