Author's choices: why this word, why this way, sentence 21
Headings and bullet points in non-fiction make facts quick to find and easy to read.
Who acts: Headings, facts · What happens: make, find, read · To what, where: facts, non-fiction
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 (Headings, facts), 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 | Headings | heading | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 make | nsubj |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 points | cc |
| 3 | bullet | bullet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 points | compound |
| 4 | points | point | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Headings | conj |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 non-fiction | case |
| 6 | non-fiction | non-fiction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 make | obl |
| 7 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | facts | fact | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 make | obj |
| 9 | quick | quick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 make | xcomp |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 find | mark |
| 11 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 quick | xcomp |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 easy | cc |
| 13 | easy | easy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 quick | conj |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 read | mark |
| 15 | read | read | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 easy | xcomp |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 make | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | present | Headings and bullet points | facts | non-fiction | quick property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset fact=Product | ||
| 2 | find | to-infinitive | facts not said here | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | read | to-infinitive | facts not said here | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «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:21.
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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