Reading non-fiction: recount, instructions, report, sentence 23
A recount about other people uses he, she, they or a name, like «Jo visited Gran»: this is third person.
Who acts: recount, Jo, this · What happens: use, visit, be · To what, where: person, Gran, third 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, Jo, 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 | 6 uses | nsubj |
| 3 | about | about | ADP | _ | 5 people | case |
| 4 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 people | amod |
| 5 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 recount | nmod |
| 6 | uses | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 uses | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 she | punct |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 he | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 they | punct |
| 11 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 she | conj |
| 12 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 14 name | cc |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 name | det |
| 14 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 they | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 visited | punct |
| 16 | like | like | SCONJ | _ | 19 visited | mark |
| 17 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 19 visited | punct |
| 18 | Jo | Jo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 visited | nsubj |
| 19 | visited | visit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 uses | advcl |
| 20 | Gran | Gran | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 visited | obj |
| 21 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 19 visited | punct |
| 22 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 26 person | punct |
| 23 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 26 person | nsubj |
| 24 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 person | cop |
| 25 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 26 person | amod |
| 26 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 uses | parataxis |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 uses | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=assert
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | use | present | a recount about other people | person | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient | ||||
| 2 | visit in a quote | past | Jo | Gran | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gran=Co-Agent | ||||
| 3 | is a | present | this | third 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:23.
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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