Author's choices: why this word, why this way, sentence 1
«The wind screamed through the trees» is not the same as «the wind blew».
Who acts: wind · What happens: scream, not be, blow · To what, where: trees · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Author's choices: why this word, why this way» 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 (wind), 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 | _ | 12 same | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 wind | det |
| 3 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 screamed | nsubj |
| 4 | screamed | scream | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 same | csubj |
| 5 | through | through | ADP | _ | 7 trees | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 trees | det |
| 7 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 screamed | obl |
| 8 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 4 screamed | punct |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 same | cop |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 same | advmod |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 same | det |
| 12 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 13 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 17 blew | mark |
| 14 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 17 blew | punct |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 wind | det |
| 16 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 blew | nsubj |
| 17 | blew | blow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 same | advcl |
| 18 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 17 blew | punct |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 same | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | scream speech: express in a quote | past | the wind | the trees | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through tree=Location | ||||
| 2 | not is | present | same property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | blow in a quote | past | the wind | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=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:021-authors-choices-why-this-word-why-this-way.lesson:1.
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, 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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