Persuasive letters, newspaper articles and diaries, sentence 1
«Dear Head Teacher, I am writing to ask for a longer lunch break.
Who acts: I · What happens: write, ask
This is a sentence of the lesson «Persuasive letters, newspaper articles and diaries» 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 (I), 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 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 4 Teacher | punct |
| 2 | Dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 Teacher | amod |
| 3 | Head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 Teacher | compound |
| 4 | Teacher | teacher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 writing | vocative |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 Teacher | punct |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 writing | nsubj |
| 7 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 writing | aux |
| 8 | writing | write | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 ask | mark |
| 10 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 writing | xcomp |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 break | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 break | det |
| 13 | longer | long | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 15 break | amod |
| 14 | lunch | lunch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 break | compound |
| 15 | break | break | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 ask | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 writing | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | write in a quote | present · progressive | I | Dear Head Teacher vocative | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask in a quote | to-infinitive | I not said here | for a longer lunch break | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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:024-persuasive-letters-newspaper-articles-and-diaries.lesson:1.
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, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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.
See the release 0.4.
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