Reading non-fiction: recount, instructions, report, sentence 10
Water it.» They have a title, a list of what you need, numbered steps in order, and bossy verbs (fill, push, water) at the start.
Who acts: you, pot · What happens: water, have, need, number, list · To what, where: seed, title · 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 (you, pot), 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 | Water | water | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Water | obj |
| 3 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Water | punct |
| 4 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 1 Water | punct |
| 5 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 have | nsubj |
| 6 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Water | parataxis |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 title | det |
| 8 | title | title | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 have | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 list | punct |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 list | det |
| 11 | list | list | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 title | conj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 what | case |
| 13 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 list | nmod |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 need | nsubj |
| 15 | need | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 what | acl:relcl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 steps | punct |
| 17 | numbered | number | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 steps | amod |
| 18 | steps | step | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 title | conj |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 order | case |
| 20 | order | order | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 steps | nmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 verbs | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 verbs | cc |
| 23 | bossy | bossy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 verbs | amod |
| 24 | verbs | verb | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 title | conj |
| 25 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 26 fill | punct |
| 26 | fill | fill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 verbs | appos |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 push | punct |
| 28 | push | push | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 fill | conj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 water | punct |
| 30 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 fill | conj |
| 31 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 26 fill | punct |
| 32 | at | at | ADP | _ | 34 start | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 start | det |
| 34 | start | start | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 verbs | nmod |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Water | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | water | imperative | you not said here | seed | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | have in a quote | present | pot | a title and a list of a title and a list of a title and numbered steps in order and bossy verbs at the start and numbered steps in order and bossy verbs at the start | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent title=Patient | ||||
| 3 | need in a quote | present | you | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 4 | number in a quote | participle | vn classify-29.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | list in a quote | a title and a list of a title and a list and numbered steps in order and bossy verbs at the start and numbered steps in order and bossy verbs at the start | nom list «communication transitive»: of=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:023-reading-non-fiction-recount-instructions-report.lesson:10.
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): 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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