Reading non-fiction: recount, instructions, report, sentence 16
Dad builds a bookcase without reading the instructions, and it wobbles.
Who acts: Dad, bookcase · What happens: build, read, wobble · To what, where: bookcase, instructions
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 (Dad, bookcase), 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 | Dad | dad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 builds | nsubj |
| 2 | builds | build | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 bookcase | det |
| 4 | bookcase | bookcase | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 builds | obj |
| 5 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 6 reading | mark |
| 6 | reading | read | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 bookcase | acl |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 instructions | det |
| 8 | instructions | instruction | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 reading | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 wobbles | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 wobbles | cc |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 wobbles | nsubj |
| 12 | wobbles | wobble | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 builds | conj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 builds | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | build | present | Dad | a bookcase | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bookcase=Product | ||||
| 2 | read | gerund | a bookcase not said here | the instructions | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent instruction=Topic | ||||
| 3 | wobble | present | bookcase | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=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:16.
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): R8-pos-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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