Fronted adverbials, sentence 0
An adverbial is a word or group of words that tells you more about the verb: when, where, how, or how often something happened.
Who acts: adverbial, word, something · What happens: be, tell, happen · To what, where: word, more, you · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Fronted adverbials» 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 (adverbial, word, something), 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 | An | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 adverbial | det |
| 2 | adverbial | adverbial | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 word | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 word | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 word | det |
| 5 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 7 group | cc |
| 7 | group | group | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 word | conj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 words | case |
| 9 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 group | nmod |
| 10 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 tells | nsubj |
| 11 | tells | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 word | acl:relcl |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 tells | iobj |
| 13 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 11 tells | obj |
| 14 | about | about | ADP | _ | 16 verb | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 verb | det |
| 16 | verb | verb | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 more | obl |
| 17 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 28 happened | punct |
| 18 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 28 happened | advmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 happened | punct |
| 20 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 28 happened | advmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 happened | punct |
| 22 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 28 happened | advmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 happened | punct |
| 24 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 28 happened | cc |
| 25 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 26 often | advmod |
| 26 | often | often | ADV | _ | 28 happened | advmod |
| 27 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 28 happened | nsubj |
| 28 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 tells | conj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 word | 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 | is a | present | a adverbial | a word or group of words | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | present | a word or group of words | more | you | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient more=Topic | |||
| 3 | happen | past | something | often property | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=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:029-fronted-adverbials.lesson:0.
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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-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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