Persuasive letters, newspaper articles and diaries, sentence 9

A newspaper article has a headline in big or capital letters to grab you and sum up the story: «LOCAL GIRL SAVES DUCKS».

Who acts: newspaper article, LOCAL GIRL · What happens: have, grab, sum up, save · To what, where: headline, big letters, you, story, DUCKS · 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 (newspaper article, LOCAL GIRL), 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 article	det
2	newspaper	newspaper	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 article	compound
3	article	article	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 has	nsubj
4	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 headline	det
6	headline	headline	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 has	obj
7	in	in	ADP	_	11 letters	case
8	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 letters	amod
9	or	or	CCONJ	_	10 capital	cc
10	capital	capital	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 big	conj
11	letters	letter	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 headline	nmod
12	to	to	PART	_	13 grab	mark
13	grab	grab	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 has	advcl
14	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 grab	obj
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 sum	cc
16	sum	sum	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 grab	conj
17	up	up	ADP	_	16 sum	compound:prt
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 story	det
19	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 sum	obj
20	:	:	PUNCT	_	16 sum	punct
21	«	«	PUNCT	_	24 SAVES	punct
22	LOCAL	local	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 GIRL	amod
23	GIRL	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 SAVES	nsubj
24	SAVES	save	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 sum	parataxis
25	DUCKS	duck	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 SAVES	obj
26	»	»	PUNCT	_	24 SAVES	obj
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 has	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed act=assert

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	have	present	a newspaper article	a headline		big letters	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent headline=Patient
2	grab	to-infinitive	a newspaper article not said here	you			vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme
3	sum up	infinitive	a newspaper article not said here	the story			tree rules
4	save in a quote	present	LOCAL GIRL		DUCKS		vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent duck=Beneficiary »=Theme

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:9.

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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