Reading a story: characters, plot and setting, sentence 20
A story mountain shows the usual shape: opening, build-up, problem, resolution and ending.
Who acts: story mountain · What happens: show · To what, where: usual shape
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 (story mountain), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 mountain | det |
| 2 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 mountain | compound |
| 3 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 shows | nsubj |
| 4 | shows | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 shape | det |
| 6 | usual | usual | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 shape | amod |
| 7 | shape | shape | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 shows | obj |
| 8 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 9 opening | punct |
| 9 | opening | open | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 shape | appos |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 build | punct |
| 11 | build | build | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 opening | conj |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 up | punct |
| 13 | up | up | ADP | _ | 11 build | compound |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 problem | punct |
| 15 | problem | problem | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 opening | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 resolution | punct |
| 17 | resolution | resolution | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 opening | conj |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 ending | cc |
| 19 | ending | ending | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 opening | conj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 shows | 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 | show | present | a story mountain | the usual shape | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent shape=Recipient |
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:20.
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): R3-conj-first ×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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