Retrieval: finding the answer in the text, sentence 20
Some retrieval answers need a small step, like adding a time, but the information still comes from the text.
Who acts: retrieval answers, information · What happens: need, add, come · To what, where: small step, 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: who acts (retrieval answers, information), 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 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 3 answers | det |
| 2 | retrieval | retrieval | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 answers | compound |
| 3 | answers | answer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 need | nsubj |
| 4 | need | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 step | det |
| 6 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 step | amod |
| 7 | step | step | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 need | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 adding | punct |
| 9 | like | like | SCONJ | _ | 10 adding | mark |
| 10 | adding | add | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 need | advcl |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 time | det |
| 12 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 adding | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 comes | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 comes | cc |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 information | det |
| 16 | information | information | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 comes | nsubj |
| 17 | still | still | ADV | _ | 18 comes | advmod |
| 18 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 need | conj |
| 19 | from | from | ADP | _ | 21 text | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 text | det |
| 21 | text | text | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 comes | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 need | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | need | present | some retrieval answers | a small step | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot step=Theme | ||||
| 2 | add speech: assert | gerund | some retrieval answers not said here | time | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | come | present | the information | the text | still | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from text=Initial_Location |
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:20.
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.
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