Author's choices: why this word, why this way, sentence 3

To answer a «why did the author…» question, name the choice, then say what it makes you feel or picture.

Who acts: you, choice · What happens: answer, name, say, make, feel, picture · To what, where: question, choice, you · 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 (you, choice), 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	To	to	PART	_	2 answer	mark
2	answer	answer	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 say	advcl
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 «	det
4	«	«	PUNCT	_	2 answer	punct
5	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	6 did	advmod
6	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 question	acl
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 author	det
8	author	author	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 did	obj
9	…	.	PUNCT	_	8 author	punct
10	»	»	PUNCT	_	11 question	punct
11	question	question	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 answer	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 name	punct
13	name	name	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 answer	conj
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 choice	det
15	choice	choice	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 name	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 say	punct
17	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	18 say	advmod
18	say	say	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
19	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	21 makes	obj
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 makes	nsubj
21	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 say	ccomp
22	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	21 makes	obj
23	feel	feel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 makes	xcomp
24	or	or	CCONJ	_	25 picture	cc
25	picture	picture	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 feel	conj
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 say	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	answer speech: assert	to-infinitive	you not said here	question		vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent question=Eventuality
2	name	infinitive	you not said here	the choice		vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent choice=Theme
3	say speech: assert	imperative	you not said here		then	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	make	present	choice	you		tree rules
5	feel	infinitive	you not said here			vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
6	picture	infinitive	you not said here			vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S_ING»: 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:3.

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): R1-cc-next ×1, R6-punct-agree ×2. 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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