Reading non-fiction: recount, instructions, report, sentence 22
A recount written by someone who was there uses «I» and «we»: this is first person.
Who acts: recount, this · What happens: write, be, use · To what, where: recount, I, first person
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 (recount, this), 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 recount | det |
| 2 | recount | recount | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 uses | nsubj |
| 3 | written | write | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 recount | acl |
| 4 | by | by | ADP | _ | 5 someone | case |
| 5 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 3 written | obl:agent |
| 6 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 there | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 there | cop |
| 8 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 someone | acl:relcl |
| 9 | uses | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 11 I | punct |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 uses | obj |
| 12 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 11 I | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 we | cc |
| 14 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 15 we | punct |
| 15 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 I | conj |
| 16 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 15 we | punct |
| 17 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 21 person | punct |
| 18 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 21 person | nsubj |
| 19 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 person | cop |
| 20 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 21 person | amod |
| 21 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 uses | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 uses | 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 | write | participle | a recount not said here | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is | past | there property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | use | present | a recount | I | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient | ||||
| 4 | is a | present | this | first person | tree rules |
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:22.
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): R5-strong ×2, R8-pos-agree ×2. 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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