Reading non-fiction: recount, instructions, report, sentence 1
A recount retells real events in time order: «On Tuesday, Class 4 went to the seaside.
Who acts: recount, Class · What happens: retell, go · To what, where: real events, time order, seaside · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Reading non-fiction: recount, instructions, report» 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 (recount, Class), 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 recount | det |
| 2 | recount | recount | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 retells | nsubj |
| 3 | retells | retell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 events | amod |
| 5 | events | event | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 retells | obj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 order | case |
| 7 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 order | compound |
| 8 | order | order | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 retells | obl |
| 9 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 3 retells | punct |
| 10 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 3 retells | punct |
| 11 | On | on | ADP | _ | 12 Tuesday | case |
| 12 | Tuesday | Tuesday | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 went | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 went | punct |
| 14 | Class | Class | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 went | nsubj |
| 15 | 4 | 4 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 14 Class | flat |
| 16 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 retells | parataxis |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 seaside | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 seaside | det |
| 19 | seaside | seaside | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 went | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 retells | 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 | retell | present | a recount | real events | time order | tree rules | |||
| 2 | go in a quote | past | Class | the seaside | tuesday | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to seaside=Initial_Location |
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:023-reading-non-fiction-recount-instructions-report.lesson:1.
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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