Reading non-fiction: recount, instructions, report, sentence 12

A report, sometimes called a non-chronological report, gives facts about a topic grouped by idea, not by time: «Hedgehogs are small mammals covered in spines.

Who acts: report, Hedgehogs · What happens: call, give, group, be, cover · To what, where: non-chronological report, facts, topic, small mammals · 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 (report, Hedgehogs), 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 report	det
2	report	report	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 gives	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 called	punct
4	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	5 called	advmod
5	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 report	acl
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 report	det
7	non-chronological	non-chronological	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 report	amod
8	report	report	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 called	xcomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 report	punct
10	gives	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	facts	fact	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 gives	obj
12	about	about	ADP	_	14 topic	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 topic	det
14	topic	topic	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 facts	nmod
15	grouped	group	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 topic	acl
16	by	by	ADP	_	17 idea	case
17	idea	idea	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 grouped	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 time	punct
19	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	21 time	advmod
20	by	by	ADP	_	21 time	case
21	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 idea	conj
22	:	:	PUNCT	_	10 gives	punct
23	«	«	PUNCT	_	27 mammals	case
24	Hedgehogs	hedgehog	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 mammals	nsubj
25	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 mammals	cop
26	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 mammals	amod
27	mammals	mammal	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 gives	parataxis
28	covered	cover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	27 mammals	acl
29	in	in	ADP	_	30 spines	case
30	spines	spine	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 covered	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 gives	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	call	participle	a report not said here	a non-chronological report	sometimes property	vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	give	present	a report	facts	about a topic	tree rules
3	group	participle		a topic not said here	by idea and time	vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	is in a quote	present	Hedgehogs		« small mammals	tree rules
5	cover in a quote	participle		small mammals not said here	in spines	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent in spine=Theme

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:12.

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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