Inference: reading between the lines, sentence 18
Characters can have mixed feelings, like smiling while sad inside.
Who acts: Characters · What happens: have, mix, smile · To what, where: mixed feelings
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 (Characters), 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 | Characters | character | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 have | nsubj |
| 2 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 have | aux |
| 3 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | mixed | mix | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 feelings | amod |
| 5 | feelings | feeling | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 have | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 smiling | punct |
| 7 | like | like | SCONJ | _ | 8 smiling | mark |
| 8 | smiling | smile | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 have | advcl |
| 9 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 10 sad | mark |
| 10 | sad | sad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 smiling | advcl |
| 11 | inside | inside | ADV | _ | 10 sad | advmod |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 have | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed polarity=none
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | can | Characters | mixed feelings | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feeling=Patient | ||||
| 2 | mix | participle | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 3 | smile | gerund | Characters not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: 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:18.
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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1. 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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