Author's choices: why this word, why this way, sentence 11
A story told by a dog is not dumb: it shows the world from a new viewpoint.
Who acts: story · What happens: tell, not be, show · To what, where: story, world, new viewpoint · 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 (story), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 story | det |
| 2 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 dumb | nsubj |
| 3 | told | tell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 story | acl |
| 4 | by | by | ADP | _ | 6 dog | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 dog | det |
| 6 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 told | obl:agent |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 dumb | cop |
| 8 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 dumb | advmod |
| 9 | dumb | dumb | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 10 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 12 shows | punct |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 shows | nsubj |
| 12 | shows | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 dumb | parataxis |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 world | det |
| 14 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 shows | obj |
| 15 | from | from | ADP | _ | 18 viewpoint | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 viewpoint | det |
| 17 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 viewpoint | amod |
| 18 | viewpoint | viewpoint | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 shows | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 dumb | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- pos
- teacher
- changed act=assert, polarity=pos
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | participle | a story not said here | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | not is | present | a story | dumb property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | show | present | story | the world | a new viewpoint | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent world=Recipient |
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:11.
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.
See the release 0.4.
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