Inference: reading between the lines, sentence 12
That is a good start, but always check your idea against the clues in the text.
Who acts: That · What happens: be, check · To what, where: good start, idea
This is a sentence of the lesson «Inference: reading between the lines» 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 (That), 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 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 start | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 start | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 start | det |
| 4 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 start | amod |
| 5 | start | start | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 check | punct |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 check | cc |
| 8 | always | always | ADV | _ | 9 check | advmod |
| 9 | check | check | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 5 start | conj |
| 10 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 idea | nmod:poss |
| 11 | idea | idea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 check | obj |
| 12 | against | against | ADP | _ | 14 clues | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 clues | det |
| 14 | clues | clue | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 check | obl |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 text | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 text | det |
| 17 | text | text | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 clues | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 start | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- evaluate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- pos
- teacher
- changed polarity=pos
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | That | a good start | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | check | infinitive | That not said here | your idea | against the clues in the text; always property | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent idea=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:018-inference-reading-between-the-lines.lesson:12.
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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