Reading a story: characters, plot and setting, sentence 25
Quotation marks around a word can show that it isn't meant literally, like «by accident» when it was on purpose.
Who acts: Quotation marks, fable · What happens: show, not mean, be · To what, where: fable, purpose · 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 (Quotation marks, fable), 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 | Quotation | quotation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 marks | compound |
| 2 | marks | mark | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 show | nsubj |
| 3 | around | around | ADP | _ | 5 word | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 word | det |
| 5 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 marks | nmod |
| 6 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 show | aux |
| 7 | show | show | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 meant | mark |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 meant | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 meant | aux:pass |
| 11 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 meant | advmod |
| 12 | meant | mean | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 show | ccomp |
| 13 | literally | literally | ADV | _ | 12 meant | advmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 « | punct |
| 15 | like | like | ADP | _ | 18 accident | case |
| 16 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 18 accident | punct |
| 17 | by | by | ADP | _ | 18 accident | case |
| 18 | accident | accident | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 meant | obl |
| 19 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 18 accident | punct |
| 20 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 24 purpose | advmod |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 purpose | nsubj |
| 22 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 purpose | cop |
| 23 | on | on | ADP | _ | 24 purpose | case |
| 24 | purpose | purpose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 accident | conj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 show | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | show | can | Quotation marks around a word | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | not mean | present · passive | fable | like accident and purpose; literally property | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic | ||||
| 3 | is | past | fable | purpose | tree rules |
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:25.
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): no change. 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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