Vocabulary in context, sentence 16
Context clues can help you work out the meaning of an unknown word.
Who acts: Context clues, you · What happens: help, work out, mean · To what, where: you, meaning, unknown word
This is a sentence of the lesson «Vocabulary in context» 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 (Context clues, 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 | Context | context | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 clues | compound |
| 2 | clues | clue | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 help | nsubj |
| 3 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 help | aux |
| 4 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 help | obj |
| 6 | work | work | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 help | xcomp |
| 7 | out | out | ADP | _ | 6 work | compound:prt |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 meaning | det |
| 9 | meaning | meaning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 work | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 word | case |
| 11 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 word | det |
| 12 | unknown | unknown | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 word | amod |
| 13 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 meaning | nmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 help | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | help | can | Context clues | you | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent you=Beneficiary clause=Theme | ||||
| 2 | work out | infinitive | you not said here | the meaning of a unknown word | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meaning=Topic | ||||
| 3 | mean | a unknown word | nom meaning «communication transitive»: of=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:020-vocabulary-in-context.lesson:16.
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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