Retrieval: finding the answer in the text, sentence 17
Skimming means reading quickly to get the general idea of a text.
Who acts: Skimming · What happens: mean, read, get · To what, where: general idea
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 (Skimming), 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 | Skimming | skimming | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 means | nsubj |
| 2 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | reading | read | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 means | xcomp |
| 4 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 3 reading | advmod |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 get | mark |
| 6 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 reading | advcl |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 idea | det |
| 8 | general | general | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 idea | amod |
| 9 | idea | idea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 get | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 text | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 text | det |
| 12 | text | text | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 idea | nmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 means | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | Skimming | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | read not said to happen | gerund | Skimming not said here | quickly property | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | get | to-infinitive | Skimming not said here | the general idea of a text | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer idea=Stimulus |
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:17.
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): 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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