Prediction: what happens next, sentence 22
Predicting keeps you thinking about the story and makes reading more exciting.
Who acts: you · What happens: predict, keep, think, make · To what, where: you, reading
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 (you), 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 | Predicting | predict | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 keeps | nsubj |
| 2 | keeps | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 2 keeps | obj |
| 4 | thinking | think | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 keeps | xcomp |
| 5 | about | about | ADP | _ | 7 story | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 story | det |
| 7 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 thinking | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 makes | cc |
| 9 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 keeps | conj |
| 10 | reading | reading | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 makes | obj |
| 11 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 12 exciting | advmod |
| 12 | exciting | exciting | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 makes | xcomp |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 keeps | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=assert
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | predict | gerund | vn indicate-78 «NP V how S»: agent=Pivot | ||||||
| 2 | keep | present | you | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | think speech: other | gerund | you not said here | about the story | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about story=Topic | ||||
| 4 | make | present | reading | exciting property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset reading=Product |
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: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): R7-rel-agree ×1, 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.
See the release 0.4.
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