Author's choices: why this word, why this way, sentence 25
The way a character speaks, posh, rough, local or old-fashioned, helps to show what they are like.
Who acts: character, way, animal · What happens: speak, help, show, be · To what, where: way · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (character, way, animal), 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 way | det |
| 2 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 helps | nsubj |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 character | det |
| 4 | character | character | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 speaks | nsubj |
| 5 | speaks | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 way | acl:relcl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 posh | punct |
| 7 | posh | posh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 speaks | xcomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 rough | punct |
| 9 | rough | rough | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 posh | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 local | punct |
| 11 | local | local | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 posh | conj |
| 12 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 15 fashioned | cc |
| 13 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 fashioned | amod |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 old | punct |
| 15 | fashioned | fashioned | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 posh | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 helps | punct |
| 17 | helps | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 show | mark |
| 19 | show | show | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 helps | xcomp |
| 20 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 19 show | ccomp |
| 21 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 what | nsubj |
| 22 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 what | cop |
| 23 | like | like | ADP | _ | 20 what | case |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 helps | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | speak speech: other | present | a character | the way not said here | posh property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | help | present | the way | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | show | to-infinitive | the way not said here | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is | present | animal | tree rules |
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:25.
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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