Reading non-fiction: recount, instructions, report, sentence 15
Ali skips the glossary and then gets stuck on «hibernate»: it means a long winter sleep.
Who acts: Ali, glossary · What happens: skip, stick, mean · To what, where: glossary, hibernate, long winter sleep
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 (Ali, glossary), 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 | Ali | Ali | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 skips | nsubj |
| 2 | skips | skip | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 glossary | det |
| 4 | glossary | glossary | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 skips | obj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 stuck | cc |
| 6 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 stuck | advmod |
| 7 | gets | get | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 stuck | aux:pass |
| 8 | stuck | stick | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 skips | conj |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 hibernate | case |
| 10 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 11 hibernate | punct |
| 11 | hibernate | hibernate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 stuck | obl |
| 12 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 11 hibernate | punct |
| 13 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 15 means | punct |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 means | nsubj |
| 15 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 skips | parataxis |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 sleep | det |
| 17 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 sleep | amod |
| 18 | winter | winter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 sleep | compound |
| 19 | sleep | sleep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 means | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 skips | 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 | skip | present | Ali | the glossary | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent glossary=Agent | ||||
| 2 | stick | present · passive | Ali not said here | hibernate | then | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: on hibernate=Destination | |||
| 3 | mean | present | glossary | a long winter sleep | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sleep=Topic |
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:15.
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.
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