Reading a story: characters, plot and setting, sentence 19
In many good stories a character changes by the end, showing what they learned from the problem.
Who acts: character, characters · What happens: change, show, learn · To what, where: many good stories, problem
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 (character, characters), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 4 stories | case |
| 2 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 stories | amod |
| 3 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 stories | amod |
| 4 | stories | story | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 changes | obl |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 character | det |
| 6 | character | character | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 changes | nsubj |
| 7 | changes | change | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | by | by | ADP | _ | 10 end | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 end | det |
| 10 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 changes | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 showing | punct |
| 12 | showing | show | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 changes | advcl |
| 13 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 12 showing | obj |
| 14 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 learned | nsubj |
| 15 | learned | learn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 what | acl:relcl |
| 16 | from | from | ADP | _ | 18 problem | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 problem | det |
| 18 | problem | problem | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 learned | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 changes | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | change | present | a character | many good stories | by the end | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | show | gerund | a character not said here | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent what=Recipient | |||||
| 3 | learn | past | characters = character | the problem | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent from problem=Source |
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:19.
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): 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.
See the release 0.4.
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