Reading non-fiction: recount, instructions, report, sentence 18
And reports should be facts, things that can be checked, not opinions, which are what someone thinks.
Who acts: reports, opinions, someone · What happens: be, check, think · To what, where: facts, things
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 (reports, opinions, someone), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 facts | cc |
| 2 | reports | report | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 facts | nsubj |
| 3 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 facts | aux |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 facts | cop |
| 5 | facts | fact | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 things | punct |
| 7 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 facts | appos |
| 8 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 checked | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 checked | aux |
| 10 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 11 checked | aux:pass |
| 11 | checked | check | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 things | acl:relcl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 opinions | punct |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 opinions | advmod |
| 14 | opinions | opinion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 facts | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 what | punct |
| 16 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 what | nsubj |
| 17 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 what | cop |
| 18 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 opinions | acl:relcl |
| 19 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 20 thinks | nsubj |
| 20 | thinks | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 what | acl:relcl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 facts | 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 | is a | should | reports | facts and opinions | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | check | can · passive | things | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 3 | is a | present | opinions | facts and opinions | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | think speech: other | present | someone | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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:18.
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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