Prediction: what happens next, sentence 19
Authors sometimes break the usual pattern to surprise the reader.
Who acts: Authors · What happens: break, surprise · To what, where: usual pattern, reader
This is a sentence of the lesson «Prediction: what happens next» 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 (Authors), 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 | Authors | author | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 break | nsubj |
| 2 | sometimes | sometimes | ADV | PronType=Ind | 3 break | advmod |
| 3 | break | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 pattern | det |
| 5 | usual | usual | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 pattern | amod |
| 6 | pattern | pattern | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 break | obj |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 surprise | mark |
| 8 | surprise | surprise | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 break | advcl |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 reader | det |
| 10 | reader | reader | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 surprise | obj |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 break | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | break | present | Authors | the usual pattern | sometimes property | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer pattern=Patient | |||
| 2 | surprise | to-infinitive | Authors not said here | the reader | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus reader=Experiencer |
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:019-prediction-what-happens-next.lesson:19.
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 ×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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