Author's choices: why this word, why this way, sentence 17
Very short sentences or paragraphs can build tension or make a moment stand out.
Who acts: short sentences · What happens: build, make, stand out · To what, where: tension
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 (short sentences), 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 | Very | very | ADV | _ | 2 short | advmod |
| 2 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 sentences | amod |
| 3 | sentences | sentence | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 build | nsubj |
| 4 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 5 paragraphs | cc |
| 5 | paragraphs | paragraph | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 sentences | conj |
| 6 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 build | aux |
| 7 | build | build | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | tension | tension | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 build | obj |
| 9 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 10 make | cc |
| 10 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 build | conj |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 moment | det |
| 12 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 make | obj |
| 13 | stand | stand | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 make | xcomp |
| 14 | out | out | ADP | _ | 13 stand | compound:prt |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 build | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | build | can | short sentences or paragraphs | tension | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset tension=Product | ||||
| 2 | make | infinitive | short sentences or paragraphs not said here | moment | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | stand out | infinitive | short sentences or paragraphs not said here | vn assuming_position-50 «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:17.
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): R7-rel-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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