Retrieval: finding the answer in the text, sentence 16
Scanning means looking quickly through a text for a key word or number.
What happens: scan, mean, look · To what, where: text
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: 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 | Scanning | scan | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 means | nsubj |
| 2 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | looking | look | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 means | xcomp |
| 4 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 3 looking | advmod |
| 5 | through | through | ADP | _ | 7 text | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 text | det |
| 7 | text | text | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 looking | obl |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 word | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 word | det |
| 10 | key | key | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 word | amod |
| 11 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 looking | obl |
| 12 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 13 number | cc |
| 13 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 word | conj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 means | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | scan | gerund | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | mean | present | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 3 | look not said to happen | gerund | a text | for a key word or number; quickly property | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent through text=Location for word=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.
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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 ×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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