Reading a story: characters, plot and setting, sentence 1
Read this: «Nell found the stray kitten behind the bins.
Who acts: you, Nell · What happens: read, find · To what, where: this, stray kitten, bins · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Reading a story: characters, plot and setting» 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, Nell), 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 | Read | read | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 1 Read | obj |
| 3 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 6 found | punct |
| 4 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 6 found | punct |
| 5 | Nell | Nell | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 found | nsubj |
| 6 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Read | parataxis |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 kitten | det |
| 8 | stray | stray | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 kitten | amod |
| 9 | kitten | kitten | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 found | obj |
| 10 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 12 bins | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 bins | det |
| 12 | bins | bin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 found | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Read | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | read | imperative | you not said here | this | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | find in a quote | past | Nell | the stray kitten | the bins | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kitten=Topic |
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:022-reading-a-story-characters-plot-and-setting.lesson:1.
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): 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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