Author's choices: why this word, why this way, sentence 20
An opening hook, like «It was the worst day of my life», makes the reader want to know more.
Who acts: hook, opening hook, reader · What happens: be, make, want, know · To what, where: worst day, reader, more
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 (hook, opening hook, 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 | An | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 hook | det |
| 2 | opening | opening | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 hook | amod |
| 3 | hook | hook | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 makes | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 hook | punct |
| 5 | like | like | SCONJ | _ | 11 day | mark |
| 6 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 11 day | punct |
| 7 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 day | nsubj |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 day | cop |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 day | det |
| 10 | worst | bad | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 11 day | amod |
| 11 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 hook | acl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 life | case |
| 13 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 life | nmod:poss |
| 14 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 day | nmod |
| 15 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 11 day | punct |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 hook | punct |
| 17 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 reader | det |
| 19 | reader | reader | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 makes | obj |
| 20 | want | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 makes | xcomp |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 know | mark |
| 22 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 want | xcomp |
| 23 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 22 know | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 makes | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | past | hook | the worst day | of my life | tree rules | |||
| 2 | make | present | a opening hook | the reader | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | want | present | the reader not said here | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | know not said to happen | to-infinitive | the reader not said here | more | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer more=Stimulus |
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:20.
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 ×2, 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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