Persuasive letters, newspaper articles and diaries, sentence 17
A rhetorical question is asked for effect and doesn't expect an answer, like «Surely you agree?»
Who acts: you · What happens: ask, not expect, agree · To what, where: rhetorical question, answer · 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 (you), 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 | 3 question | det |
| 2 | rhetorical | rhetorical | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 question | amod |
| 3 | question | question | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 asked | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 asked | aux:pass |
| 5 | asked | ask | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 effect | case |
| 7 | effect | effect | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 asked | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 expect | cc |
| 9 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 expect | aux |
| 10 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 expect | advmod |
| 11 | expect | expect | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 asked | conj |
| 12 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 answer | det |
| 13 | answer | answer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 expect | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 agree | punct |
| 15 | like | like | ADP | _ | 19 agree | mark |
| 16 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 19 agree | punct |
| 17 | Surely | surely | ADV | _ | 19 agree | advmod |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 agree | nsubj |
| 19 | agree | agree | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 expect | parataxis |
| 20 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 asked | punct |
| 21 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 5 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | present · passive | a rhetorical question | for effect | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | not expect | present · do-support | a answer | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | agree speech: agree in a quote | present | you | surely property | vn correspond-36.1-1 «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:17.
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): R8-pos-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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