Prediction: what happens next, sentence 6

Good readers change their predictions as they go, like a weather forecaster who looks out of the window again.

Who acts: Good readers, readers, weather forecaster · What happens: change, go, look out, predict · To what, where: predictions, window

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 (Good readers, readers, weather forecaster), 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	Good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 readers	amod
2	readers	reader	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 change	nsubj
3	change	change	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 predictions	nmod:poss
5	predictions	prediction	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 change	obj
6	as	as	SCONJ	_	8 go	mark
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 go	nsubj
8	go	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 change	advcl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 go	punct
10	like	like	ADP	_	13 forecaster	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 forecaster	det
12	weather	weather	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 forecaster	compound
13	forecaster	forecaster	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 change	obl
14	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 looks	nsubj
15	looks	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 forecaster	acl:relcl
16	out	out	ADP	_	19 window	case
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 window	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 window	det
19	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 looks	obl
20	again	again	ADV	_	15 looks	advmod
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 change	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	change	present	Good readers	readers's predictions		like a weather forecaster	vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prediction=Patient
2	go	present	readers = reader				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	look out	present	a weather forecaster	the window	again		tree rules
4	predict		readers = reader				nom prediction «cognition transitive»: poss=agent

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:6.

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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