Reading non-fiction: recount, instructions, report, sentence 4
Finally, we built a huge sandcastle.» Time words like first, next, then and finally show the order.
Who acts: we, Time words · What happens: build, show · To what, where: huge sandcastle, order
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 (we, Time words), 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 | Finally | finally | ADV | _ | 4 built | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Finally | punct |
| 3 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 built | nsubj |
| 4 | built | build | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 sandcastle | det |
| 6 | huge | huge | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 sandcastle | amod |
| 7 | sandcastle | sandcastle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 built | obj |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 built | punct |
| 9 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 4 built | punct |
| 10 | Time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 words | compound |
| 11 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 show | nsubj |
| 12 | like | like | ADP | _ | 13 first | case |
| 13 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 11 words | advmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 next | punct |
| 15 | next | next | ADV | _ | 13 first | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 next | punct |
| 17 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 20 show | advmod |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 show | cc |
| 19 | finally | finally | ADV | _ | 20 show | advmod |
| 20 | show | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 built | conj |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 order | det |
| 22 | order | order | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 show | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 built | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | build | past | we | a huge sandcastle | finally property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sandcastle=Product | |||
| 2 | show in a quote | present | Time words | the order | then | finally property | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent order=Recipient |
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:4.
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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-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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