Author's choices: why this word, why this way, sentence 15
The effect is what a choice makes the reader feel, picture or think.
Who acts: effect, choice, reader · What happens: be, make, feel, picture, think
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 (effect, choice, reader), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 effect | det |
| 2 | effect | effect | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 what | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 what | cop |
| 4 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 choice | det |
| 6 | choice | choice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 makes | nsubj |
| 7 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 what | acl:relcl |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 reader | det |
| 9 | reader | reader | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 feel | nsubj |
| 10 | feel | feel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 makes | xcomp |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 picture | punct |
| 12 | picture | picture | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 feel | conj |
| 13 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 14 think | cc |
| 14 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 feel | conj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 what | 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 | the effect | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | make | present | a choice | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | feel | infinitive | the reader | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | picture | infinitive | the reader not said here | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | think speech: other | infinitive | the reader not said here | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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:15.
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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