Author's choices: why this word, why this way, sentence 9
Mark in Bristol says, «Proper job, the writer made the baddie talk all posh.
Who acts: Mark, writer, baddie · What happens: say, make, talk · To what, where: baddie · 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 (Mark, writer, baddie), 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 | Mark | Mark | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 says | nsubj |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 3 Bristol | case |
| 3 | Bristol | Bristol | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Mark | nmod |
| 4 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 job | punct |
| 6 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 8 job | punct |
| 7 | Proper | proper | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 job | amod |
| 8 | job | job | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 says | nsubj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 job | punct |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 writer | det |
| 11 | writer | writer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 made | nsubj |
| 12 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 says | ccomp |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 baddie | det |
| 14 | baddie | baddie | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 made | obj |
| 15 | talk | talk | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 made | xcomp |
| 16 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 17 posh | det |
| 17 | posh | posh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 talk | xcomp |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 says | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- evaluate
- voice
- character
- polarity
- pos
- teacher
- changed act=evaluate, voice=character, polarity=pos
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | Mark in Bristol | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | make in a quote | past | the writer | the baddie | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | talk in a quote | infinitive | the baddie not said here | posh property | vn talk-37.5 «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:9.
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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, 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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