Inference: reading between the lines, sentence 8
Twinkling eyes mean fun and mischief, so she is probably hiding a present.
Who acts: Twinkling eyes, Inference · What happens: twinkle, mean, hide · To what, where: fun, present
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 (Twinkling eyes, Inference), 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 | Twinkling | twinkle | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 eyes | amod |
| 2 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 mean | nsubj |
| 3 | mean | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | fun | fun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 mean | obj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 mischief | cc |
| 6 | mischief | mischief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 fun | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 hiding | punct |
| 8 | so | so | ADV | _ | 12 hiding | advmod |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 hiding | nsubj |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 hiding | aux |
| 11 | probably | probably | ADV | _ | 12 hiding | advmod |
| 12 | hiding | hide | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 mean | parataxis |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 present | det |
| 14 | present | present | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 hiding | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 mean | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | twinkle | gerund | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | mean | present | Twinkling eyes | fun and mischief | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fun=Topic | ||||
| 3 | hide | present · progressive | Inference | a present | probably property | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent present=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:8.
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, R8-pos-agree ×2. 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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