Persuasive letters, newspaper articles and diaries, sentence 12
A diary is personal and chatty: «Dear Diary, today was the WORST.
Who acts: diary, today · What happens: be · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (diary, today), 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 diary | det |
| 2 | diary | diary | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 personal | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 personal | cop |
| 4 | personal | personal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 chatty | cc |
| 6 | chatty | chatty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 personal | conj |
| 7 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 4 personal | punct |
| 8 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 15 WORST | punct |
| 9 | Dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 Diary | amod |
| 10 | Diary | Diary | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 WORST | vocative |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 Diary | punct |
| 12 | today | today | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 WORST | nsubj |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 WORST | cop |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 WORST | det |
| 15 | WORST | bad | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 4 personal | parataxis |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 personal | 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 | is | present | a diary | personal property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | a diary not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | is in a quote | past | today | Dear Diary vocative; bad property | tree rules |
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:12.
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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