Reading non-fiction: recount, instructions, report, sentence 25
Bossy verbs, also called imperative verbs, tell you what to do: mix, fill, push, stir.
Who acts: Bossy verbs · What happens: call, tell, do, mix, fill, push · To what, where: imperative verbs, you · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Bossy verbs), 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 | Bossy | bossy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 verbs | amod |
| 2 | verbs | verb | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 tell | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 called | punct |
| 4 | also | also | ADV | _ | 5 called | advmod |
| 5 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 verbs | acl |
| 6 | imperative | imperative | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 verbs | amod |
| 7 | verbs | verb | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 called | xcomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 verbs | punct |
| 9 | tell | tell | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 tell | iobj |
| 11 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 13 do | obj |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 do | mark |
| 13 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 tell | ccomp |
| 14 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 15 mix | punct |
| 15 | mix | mix | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 tell | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 fill | punct |
| 17 | fill | fill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 mix | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 push | punct |
| 19 | push | push | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 mix | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 stir | punct |
| 21 | stir | stir | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 mix | conj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 tell | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | participle | Bossy verbs not said here | imperative verbs | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | infinitive | Bossy verbs | you | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | do not said to happen | to-infinitive | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | ||||||
| 4 | mix | infinitive | Bossy verbs not said here | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 5 | fill | infinitive | Bossy verbs not said here | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 6 | push | infinitive | Bossy verbs not said here | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 7 | stir | infinitive | Bossy verbs not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
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:25.
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): R3-conj-first ×2, 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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