Reading poems: meaning, sound and pictures, sentence 9
Read it aloud and the quick beat sounds like wheels rushing on rails.
Who acts: you, quick beat, wheels · What happens: read, sound, rush · To what, where: Sound, rails
This is a sentence of the lesson «Reading poems: meaning, sound and pictures» 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 (you, quick beat, wheels), 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 | Read | read | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Read | obj |
| 3 | aloud | aloud | ADV | _ | 1 Read | advmod |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 sounds | cc |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 beat | det |
| 6 | quick | quick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 beat | amod |
| 7 | beat | beat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 sounds | nsubj |
| 8 | sounds | sound | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Read | conj |
| 9 | like | like | ADP | _ | 10 wheels | case |
| 10 | wheels | wheel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 sounds | obl |
| 11 | rushing | rush | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 wheels | acl |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 rails | case |
| 13 | rails | rail | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 rushing | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Read | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | read | imperative | you not said here | Sound | aloud property | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic | |||
| 2 | sound | present | the quick beat | like wheels | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | rush | gerund | wheels not said here | rails | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on rail=Trajectory |
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:025-reading-poems-meaning-sound-and-pictures.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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