Persuasive letters, newspaper articles and diaries, sentence 23
Newspapers can favour one side; comparing two reports helps you spot it.
Who acts: Newspapers, comparing, you · What happens: favour, compare, help, spot · To what, where: one side, two reports, you, report
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 (Newspapers, comparing, 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 | Newspapers | newspaper | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 favour | nsubj |
| 2 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 favour | aux |
| 3 | favour | favour | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 side | nummod |
| 5 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 favour | obj |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 3 favour | punct |
| 7 | comparing | compare | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 helps | csubj |
| 8 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 reports | nummod |
| 9 | reports | report | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 comparing | obj |
| 10 | helps | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 favour | parataxis |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 helps | obj |
| 12 | spot | spot | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 helps | xcomp |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 spot | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 favour | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | favour | can | Newspapers | one side | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | compare | gerund | two reports | vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent report=Patient | |||||
| 3 | help | present | comparing | you | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent you=Beneficiary clause=Theme | ||||
| 4 | spot | present | you not said here | report | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Destination |
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:23.
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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