Inference: reading between the lines, sentence 19

Descriptions of a place can tell you about the people, like a weedy garden and a broken gate suggesting nobody cares for the house.

Who acts: Descriptions, weedy garden, nobody · What happens: tell, suggest, care, describe · To what, where: you, place · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Descriptions, weedy garden, nobody), 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	Descriptions	description	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 tell	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	4 place	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 place	det
4	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Descriptions	nmod
5	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 tell	aux
6	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 tell	iobj
8	about	about	ADP	_	10 people	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 people	det
10	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 tell	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 garden	punct
12	like	like	ADP	_	15 garden	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 garden	det
14	weedy	weedy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 garden	amod
15	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 tell	obl
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 gate	cc
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 gate	det
18	broken	broken	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 gate	amod
19	gate	gate	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 garden	conj
20	suggesting	suggest	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	15 garden	acl
21	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	22 cares	nsubj
22	cares	care	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 suggesting	ccomp
23	for	for	ADP	_	25 house	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 house	det
25	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 cares	obl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 tell	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	can	Descriptions of a place		you	about the people; like a weedy garden and a broken gate	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent you=Recipient about people=Topic
2	suggest speech: suggest	gerund	a weedy garden and a broken gate not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	care	present	nobody			for the house	vn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent for house=Theme
4	describe			a place			nom description «communication transitive»: of=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:19.

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): R7-rel-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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