Reading non-fiction: recount, instructions, report, sentence 30
A fact can be checked and proved; an opinion is what someone thinks or feels.
Who acts: opinion, someone · What happens: check, prove, be, think, feel · To what, where: fact
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 (opinion, 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 fact | det |
| 2 | fact | fact | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 checked | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 checked | aux |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 checked | aux:pass |
| 5 | checked | check | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 proved | cc |
| 7 | proved | prove | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 checked | conj |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 5 checked | punct |
| 9 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 opinion | det |
| 10 | opinion | opinion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 what | nsubj |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 what | cop |
| 12 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 checked | parataxis |
| 13 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 14 thinks | nsubj |
| 14 | thinks | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 what | acl:relcl |
| 15 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 16 feels | cc |
| 16 | feels | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 thinks | conj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 checked | 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 | check | can · passive | a fact | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 2 | prove | participle | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | is a | present | a opinion | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | think speech: other | present | someone | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | feel | present | someone not said here | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
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:30.
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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