Inference: reading between the lines, sentence 3
A detective does not need a magnifying glass, only careful eyes.
Who acts: detective · What happens: not need, magnify · To what, where: magnifying glass
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 (detective), 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 | 2 detective | det |
| 2 | detective | detective | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 need | nsubj |
| 3 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 need | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 need | advmod |
| 5 | need | need | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 glass | det |
| 7 | magnifying | magnify | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 glass | amod |
| 8 | glass | glass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 need | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 eyes | punct |
| 10 | only | only | ADV | _ | 11 careful | advmod |
| 11 | careful | careful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 eyes | amod |
| 12 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 glass | conj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 need | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not need | present · do-support | a detective | a magnifying glass and careful eyes | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot glass=Theme | ||||
| 2 | magnify | gerund | vn remedy-45.7-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=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:3.
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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