Persuasive letters, newspaper articles and diaries, sentence 20
The first paragraph of a news article usually tells who, what, when and where.
Who acts: first paragraph, news article · What happens: tell, paragraph · 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 (first paragraph, news article), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 paragraph | det |
| 2 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 3 paragraph | amod |
| 3 | paragraph | paragraph | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 tells | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 article | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 article | det |
| 6 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 article | compound |
| 7 | article | article | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 paragraph | nmod |
| 8 | usually | usually | ADV | _ | 9 tells | advmod |
| 9 | tells | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Int | 9 tells | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 what | punct |
| 12 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 who | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 when | punct |
| 14 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 16 where | advmod |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 where | cc |
| 16 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 12 what | conj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 tells | 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 | tell speech: assert | present | the first paragraph of a news article | usually property | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent who=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | paragraph | a news article | nom paragraph «communication intransitive»: of=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:20.
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. 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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