Inference: reading between the lines, sentence 22
Linking a story to your own life helps, but the text has the final say.
Who acts: Linking, text · What happens: link, help, have · To what, where: story, final say
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 (Linking, text), 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 | Linking | link | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 helps | csubj |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 story | det |
| 3 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Linking | obj |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 life | case |
| 5 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 life | nmod:poss |
| 6 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 life | amod |
| 7 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Linking | obl |
| 8 | helps | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 has | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 has | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 text | det |
| 12 | text | text | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 has | nsubj |
| 13 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 helps | conj |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 say | det |
| 15 | final | final | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 say | amod |
| 16 | say | say | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 has | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 helps | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | link | gerund | a story | to your own life | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent story=Patient to life=Co-Patient | ||||
| 2 | help | present | Linking | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | have | present | the text | the final say | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent say=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:22.
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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