Author's choices: why this word, why this way, sentence 14
An author's choice is a decision about words, sentences or layout, made on purpose.
Who acts: choice · What happens: be, make · To what, where: decision, purpose
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 (choice), 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 | An | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 author | det |
| 2 | author | author | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 choice | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 author | case |
| 4 | choice | choice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 decision | nsubj |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 decision | cop |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 decision | det |
| 7 | decision | decision | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | about | about | ADP | _ | 9 words | case |
| 9 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 decision | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 sentences | punct |
| 11 | sentences | sentence | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 words | conj |
| 12 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 13 layout | cc |
| 13 | layout | layout | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 words | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 made | punct |
| 15 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 decision | acl |
| 16 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 purpose | case |
| 17 | purpose | purpose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 made | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 decision | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | a author's choice | a decision | about words and sentences or layout | tree rules | |||
| 2 | make | participle | a decision not said here | purpose | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
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:14.
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): R1-cc-next ×1, R3-conj-first ×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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