Reading a story: characters, plot and setting, sentence 6
The plan failed because he didn't think of the birds: one event causes the next.
Who acts: plan, one event · What happens: fail, not think, cause · To what, where: next
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 (plan, one event), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 plan | det |
| 2 | plan | plan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 failed | nsubj |
| 3 | failed | fail | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 8 think | mark |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 think | nsubj |
| 6 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 think | aux |
| 7 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 think | advmod |
| 8 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 failed | advcl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 birds | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 birds | det |
| 11 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 think | obl |
| 12 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 15 causes | punct |
| 13 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 event | nummod |
| 14 | event | event | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 causes | nsubj |
| 15 | causes | cause | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 failed | parataxis |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 next | det |
| 17 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 causes | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 failed | 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 | fail | past | the plan | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | not think speech: other | past · do-support | plan | of the birds | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | cause | present | one event | the next | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition next=Patient |
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:6.
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.
See the release 0.4.
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