Inference: reading between the lines, sentence 20

Some inference questions have more than one sensible answer, as long as each fits the clues.

Who acts: inference questions, each · What happens: have, fit · To what, where: one sensible answer, 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 questions, each), 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	Some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	3 questions	det
2	inference	inference	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 questions	compound
3	questions	question	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 have	nsubj
4	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV	7 one	advmod
6	than	than	ADP	_	5 more	fixed
7	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 answer	nummod
8	sensible	sensible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 answer	amod
9	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 have	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 long	punct
11	as	as	ADV	_	12 long	advmod
12	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 have	advmod
13	as	as	SCONJ	_	15 fits	mark
14	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	15 fits	nsubj
15	fits	fit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 long	advcl
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 clues	det
17	clues	clue	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 fits	obj
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 have	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	some inference questions	one sensible answer				long property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent answer=Patient
2	fit	present	each	the 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:20.

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): R5-strong ×2, 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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