Fronted adverbials, sentence 22
Using a fronted adverbial in every sentence makes writing sound clunky; use them for variety.
Who acts: Using · What happens: use, front, make, write, sound · To what, where: fronted adverbial, sentence, word
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 (Using), 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 | Using | use | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 makes | csubj |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 adverbial | det |
| 3 | fronted | front | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 adverbial | amod |
| 4 | adverbial | adverbial | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Using | obj |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 sentence | case |
| 6 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 sentence | det |
| 7 | sentence | sentence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Using | obl |
| 8 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | writing | write | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 sound | nsubj |
| 10 | sound | sound | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 makes | xcomp |
| 11 | clunky | clunky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 sound | xcomp |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 use | punct |
| 13 | use | use | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 8 makes | parataxis |
| 14 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 use | obj |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 variety | case |
| 16 | variety | variety | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 use | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 makes | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- suggest
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=suggest
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | use | gerund | a fronted adverbial | every sentence | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent adverbial=Patient | ||||
| 2 | front | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | make | present | Using | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | write | gerund | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | sound | infinitive | clunky property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 6 | use | infinitive | word | for variety | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP PP.predicate»: agent=Agent they=Theme for variety=Eventuality |
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:22.
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. 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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