Persuasive letters, newspaper articles and diaries, sentence 18
An opinion can be dressed up to sound like a fact, for example with «everyone knows».
Who acts: everyone · What happens: dress up, sound, know · To what, where: opinion, fact
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 (everyone), 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 | An | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 opinion | det |
| 2 | opinion | opinion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 dressed | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 dressed | aux |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 dressed | aux:pass |
| 5 | dressed | dress | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | up | up | ADP | _ | 5 dressed | compound:prt |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 sound | mark |
| 8 | sound | sound | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 dressed | advcl |
| 9 | like | like | ADP | _ | 11 fact | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 fact | det |
| 11 | fact | fact | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 sound | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 example | punct |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 example | case |
| 14 | example | example | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 fact | nmod |
| 15 | with | with | SCONJ | _ | 18 knows | mark |
| 16 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 18 knows | punct |
| 17 | everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 18 knows | nsubj |
| 18 | knows | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 fact | acl |
| 19 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 18 knows | punct |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 dressed | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dress up | can · passive | a opinion | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 2 | sound | to-infinitive | like a fact for example | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | know in a quote | present | everyone | a fact for example not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer fact=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:024-persuasive-letters-newspaper-articles-and-diaries.lesson:18.
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 ×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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