Retrieval: finding the answer in the text, sentence 18
If a question asks for several things («Name two things»), the answer needs every part.
Who acts: question, answer · What happens: ask, name, need · To what, where: two things, part · 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 (question, answer), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 4 asks | mark |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 question | det |
| 3 | question | question | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 asks | nsubj |
| 4 | asks | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 needs | advcl |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 things | case |
| 6 | several | several | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 things | amod |
| 7 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 asks | obl |
| 8 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 10 Name | punct |
| 9 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 10 Name | punct |
| 10 | Name | name | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 asks | parataxis |
| 11 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 things | nummod |
| 12 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 Name | obj |
| 13 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 10 Name | punct |
| 14 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 4 asks | punct |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 needs | punct |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 answer | det |
| 17 | answer | answer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 needs | nsubj |
| 18 | needs | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 19 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 20 part | det |
| 20 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 needs | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 needs | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=assert
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask a condition, not said to happen | present | a question | for several things | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | name in a quote | infinitive | two things | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Theme | |||||
| 3 | need | present | the answer | every part | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot part=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:017-retrieval-finding-the-answer-in-the-text.lesson:18.
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, R6-punct-agree ×1, 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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