Reading a story: characters, plot and setting, sentence 23
A fable is a short story, often with animals, that teaches a lesson called a moral.
Who acts: fable, short story, lesson · What happens: be, teach, call · To what, where: short story, lesson, moral · 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 (fable, short story, lesson), 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 | 2 fable | det |
| 2 | fable | fable | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 story | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 story | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 story | det |
| 5 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 story | amod |
| 6 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 animals | punct |
| 8 | often | often | ADV | _ | 10 animals | advmod |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 animals | case |
| 10 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 story | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 teaches | punct |
| 12 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 teaches | nsubj |
| 13 | teaches | teach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 story | acl:relcl |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 lesson | det |
| 15 | lesson | lesson | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 teaches | obj |
| 16 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 lesson | acl |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 moral | det |
| 18 | moral | moral | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 called | xcomp |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 story | 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 | is a | present | a fable | a short story | with animals | tree rules | |||
| 2 | teach speech: other | present | a short story | a lesson | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent lesson=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | call | participle | a lesson not said here | a moral | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «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:23.
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, 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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