Persuasive letters, newspaper articles and diaries, sentence 26
Clues like candles, horses and carts, or old-fashioned words can show a diary is from long ago.
Who acts: Clues, diary · What happens: show, 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 (Clues, diary), 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 | Clues | clue | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 show | nsubj |
| 2 | like | like | ADP | _ | 3 candles | case |
| 3 | candles | candle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Clues | nmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 horses | punct |
| 5 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 candles | conj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 horses | cc |
| 7 | carts | cart | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Clues | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 show | punct |
| 9 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 13 words | cc |
| 10 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 fashioned | amod |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 old | punct |
| 12 | fashioned | fashioned | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 words | amod |
| 13 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Clues | conj |
| 14 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 show | aux |
| 15 | show | show | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 diary | det |
| 17 | diary | diary | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 ago | nsubj |
| 18 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 ago | cop |
| 19 | from | from | ADP | _ | 21 ago | case |
| 20 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 21 ago | advmod |
| 21 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 15 show | ccomp |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 show | 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 | show | can | Clues like candles and horses and carts or fashioned words | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is | present | a diary | ago, long 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:26.
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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, 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.
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