Reading a story: characters, plot and setting, sentence 26
A summary tells the main events in a few words, not every detail.
Who acts: summary · What happens: tell · To what, where: main events, few words · 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 (summary), 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 summary | det |
| 2 | summary | summary | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 tells | nsubj |
| 3 | tells | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 events | det |
| 5 | main | main | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 events | amod |
| 6 | events | event | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 tells | obj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 words | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 words | det |
| 9 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 words | amod |
| 10 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 tells | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 detail | punct |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 detail | advmod |
| 13 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 14 detail | det |
| 14 | detail | detail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 events | conj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 tells | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | present | a summary | the main events and every detail | a few words | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent event=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:26.
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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