Inference: reading between the lines, sentence 14
A clue is a detail in the text, like an action or a description, that hints at something.
Who acts: clue, detail · What happens: be, hint · To what, where: detail, text, something
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 (clue, detail), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 clue | det |
| 2 | clue | clue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 detail | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 detail | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 detail | det |
| 5 | detail | detail | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 text | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 text | det |
| 8 | text | text | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 detail | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 action | punct |
| 10 | like | like | ADP | _ | 12 action | case |
| 11 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 action | det |
| 12 | action | action | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 detail | nmod |
| 13 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 15 description | cc |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 description | det |
| 15 | description | description | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 action | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 hints | punct |
| 17 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 hints | nsubj |
| 18 | hints | hint | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 detail | acl:relcl |
| 19 | at | at | ADP | _ | 20 something | case |
| 20 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 18 hints | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 detail | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | a clue | a detail | the text | like a action or a description | tree rules | ||
| 2 | hint speech: other | present | a detail | something | vn say-37.7-1-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent |
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:14.
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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