Retrieval: finding the answer in the text, sentence 6
The fast way: underline the key word in the question (time, buy, where), then scan, which means running your eyes quickly over the text looking only for that word or number.
Who acts: you · What happens: underline, buy, scan, mean, run, look · To what, where: key word, question, fast way, eyes, 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 (you), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 way | det |
| 2 | fast | fast | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 way | amod |
| 3 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 buy | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 3 way | punct |
| 5 | underline | underline | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 way | appos |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 word | det |
| 7 | key | key | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 word | amod |
| 8 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 underline | obj |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 question | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 question | det |
| 11 | question | question | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 word | nmod |
| 12 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 13 time | punct |
| 13 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 buy | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 buy | punct |
| 15 | buy | buy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 where | punct |
| 17 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 15 buy | advmod |
| 18 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 17 where | punct |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 scan | punct |
| 20 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 21 scan | advmod |
| 21 | scan | scan | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 5 underline | conj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 means | punct |
| 23 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 means | nsubj |
| 24 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 scan | acl:relcl |
| 25 | running | run | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 24 means | xcomp |
| 26 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 27 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 running | obj |
| 28 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 25 running | advmod |
| 29 | over | over | ADP | _ | 31 text | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 text | det |
| 31 | text | text | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 running | obl |
| 32 | looking | look | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 25 running | conj |
| 33 | only | only | ADV | _ | 36 word | advmod |
| 34 | for | for | ADP | _ | 36 word | case |
| 35 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 36 word | det |
| 36 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 looking | obl |
| 37 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 38 number | cc |
| 38 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 word | conj |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 buy | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- command
- act
- suggest
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed form=imp, act=suggest
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | underline | infinitive | the key word | the question | vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent word=Theme in question=Destination | ||||
| 2 | buy | imperative | you not said here | the fast way | time | vn accept-77.1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | |||
| 3 | scan | infinitive | then | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | mean | present | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 5 | run not said to happen | gerund | your eyes | the text | quickly property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent eye=Theme over text=Trajectory | |||
| 6 | look | gerund | for that word or number | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent 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.
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:6.
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): R6-punct-agree ×2. 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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