Reading a story: characters, plot and setting, sentence 16

Characters are the people or animals in a story; we learn what they are like from what they do, say and think.

Who acts: Characters, we · What happens: be, learn, do, say, think · To what, where: people, story · 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 (Characters, we), 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	Characters	character	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 people	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 people	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 people	det
4	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	or	or	CCONJ	_	6 animals	cc
6	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 people	conj
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 story	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 story	det
9	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 people	nmod
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 learn	punct
11	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 learn	nsubj
12	learn	learn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 people	parataxis
13	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 learn	obj
14	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 what	nsubj
15	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 what	cop
16	like	like	INTJ	_	18 what	discourse
17	from	from	ADP	_	18 what	case
18	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 learn	obl
19	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 do	nsubj
20	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 what	acl:relcl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 say	punct
22	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 do	conj
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 think	cc
24	think	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 say	conj
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 people	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: pos
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Characters	the people or animals	a story		tree rules
2	learn	present	we			from the people or animals	vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent from what=Source
3	is a	present	characters = character	the people or animals			tree rules
4	do	present	characters = character				vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	say speech: assert	present	characters = character not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
6	think speech: other	present	characters = character not said here				vn focus-87.1-1 «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:022-reading-a-story-characters-plot-and-setting.lesson:16.

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. 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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