Fronted adverbials, sentence 13
A fronted adverbial is an adverbial moved to the start of a sentence.
Who acts: fronted adverbial · What happens: front, be, move, start · To what, where: adverbial, start, sentence
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 (fronted adverbial), 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 adverbial | det |
| 2 | fronted | front | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 adverbial | amod |
| 3 | adverbial | adverbial | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 adverbial | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 adverbial | cop |
| 5 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 adverbial | det |
| 6 | adverbial | adverbial | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | moved | move | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 adverbial | acl |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 start | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 start | det |
| 10 | start | start | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 moved | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 sentence | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 sentence | det |
| 13 | sentence | sentence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 start | nmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 adverbial | 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 | front | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | is a | present | a fronted adverbial | a adverbial | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | move | participle | a adverbial not said here | the start of a sentence | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme to start=Trajectory | ||||
| 4 | start | a sentence | nom start «event transitive»: of=patient |
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:13.
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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