Vocabulary in context, sentence 8

«He gave a curt reply and walked away.» Curt means short, but the walking away tells you it was short in a rude, unfriendly way.

Who acts: treacherous, Curt, walking · What happens: give, walk away, means, tell, be · To what, where: curt reply, you, rude unfriendly way · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (treacherous, Curt, walking), 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	«	«	PUNCT	_	3 gave	punct
2	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 gave	nsubj
3	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 reply	det
5	curt	curt	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 reply	compound
6	reply	reply	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 gave	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 walked	cc
8	walked	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 gave	conj
9	away	away	ADV	_	8 walked	advmod
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 gave	punct
11	»	»	PUNCT	_	3 gave	punct
12	Curt	curt	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 means	nsubj
13	means	means	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 gave	parataxis
14	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 means	xcomp
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 tells	punct
16	but	but	CCONJ	_	20 tells	cc
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 walking	det
18	walking	walking	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 tells	nsubj
19	away	away	ADV	_	18 walking	advmod
20	tells	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 means	conj
21	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	20 tells	iobj
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 short	nsubj
23	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 short	cop
24	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 tells	ccomp
25	in	in	ADP	_	30 way	case
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 way	det
27	rude	rude	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 way	amod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 rude	punct
29	unfriendly	unfriendly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 way	amod
30	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 short	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 gave	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	give in a quote	past	treacherous	a curt reply				tree rules
2	walk away in a quote	past	treacherous not said here				away property	vn resign-10.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	means	present	Curt				short property	tree rules
4	tell speech: assert	present	the walking		you			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient
5	is	past	walking			a rude unfriendly way	short property	tree rules

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: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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, 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.

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