Inference: reading between the lines, sentence 2
A good reader is a detective: find the clues, then say what they show.
Who acts: good reader, clues · What happens: be, find, say, show · To what, where: detective, clues · 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 (good reader, clues), 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 | 3 reader | det |
| 2 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 reader | amod |
| 3 | reader | reader | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 detective | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 detective | cop |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 detective | det |
| 6 | detective | detective | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 8 find | punct |
| 8 | find | find | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 6 detective | parataxis |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 clues | det |
| 10 | clues | clue | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 find | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 say | punct |
| 12 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 13 say | advmod |
| 13 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 8 find | conj |
| 14 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 16 show | obj |
| 15 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 show | nsubj |
| 16 | show | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 say | ccomp |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 detective | 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 good reader | a detective | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | find | infinitive | the clues | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clue=Topic | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | infinitive | then | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | show | present | clues = clue | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent what=Recipient |
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:2.
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.
See the release 0.4.
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