Inference: reading between the lines, sentence 16
An inference must fit all the clues, not just one of them.
Who acts: inference · What happens: fit · To what, where: clues
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 (inference), 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 | An | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 inference | det |
| 2 | inference | inference | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 fit | nsubj |
| 3 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 fit | aux |
| 4 | fit | fit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 clues | det:predet |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 clues | det |
| 7 | clues | clue | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 fit | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 one | punct |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 one | advmod |
| 10 | just | just | ADV | _ | 11 one | advmod |
| 11 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 clues | nmod |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 them | case |
| 13 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 one | nmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 fit | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fit | must | a inference | all clues one of clues | vn adjust-26.9 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clue=Patient |
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:16.
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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