Reading non-fiction: recount, instructions, report, sentence 28
Even a dull report can teach you something: look for one surprising fact.
Who acts: dull report · What happens: teach, look · To what, where: something, you
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 (dull report), 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 | Even | even | ADV | _ | 4 report | advmod |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 report | det |
| 3 | dull | dull | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 report | amod |
| 4 | report | report | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 teach | nsubj |
| 5 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 teach | aux |
| 6 | teach | teach | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 teach | iobj |
| 8 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 6 teach | obj |
| 9 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 6 teach | punct |
| 10 | look | look | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 8 something | parataxis |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 fact | case |
| 12 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 fact | nummod |
| 13 | surprising | surprising | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 fact | amod |
| 14 | fact | fact | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 look | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 teach | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- suggest
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=suggest
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | teach speech: other | can | a dull report | something | you | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient something=Topic | |||
| 2 | look | infinitive | for one surprising fact | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for fact=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:28.
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 ×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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