Fronted adverbials, sentence 6

The subject is missing: «Carefully, Ali carried the eggs.» Test it by covering the adverbial: what is left must make sense alone.

Who acts: subject, Ali · What happens: be, carry, test, cover, leave, make · To what, where: eggs, subject, adverbial, sense · 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 (subject, Ali), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 subject	det
2	subject	subject	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 missing	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 missing	cop
4	missing	missing	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	:	:	PUNCT	_	4 missing	punct
6	«	«	PUNCT	_	10 carried	punct
7	Carefully	carefully	ADV	_	10 carried	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 carried	punct
9	Ali	Ali	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 carried	nsubj
10	carried	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 missing	parataxis
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 eggs	det
12	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 carried	obj
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 carried	punct
14	»	»	PUNCT	_	15 Test	punct
15	Test	test	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	4 missing	parataxis
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 Test	obj
17	by	by	SCONJ	_	18 covering	mark
18	covering	cover	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	15 Test	advcl
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 adverbial	det
20	adverbial	adverbial	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 covering	obj
21	:	:	PUNCT	_	24 left	punct
22	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	24 left	nsubj:pass
23	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 left	aux:pass
24	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 adverbial	acl:relcl
25	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 make	aux
26	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 Test	parataxis
27	sense	sense	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 make	obj
28	alone	alone	ADV	_	26 make	advmod
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 missing	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	the subject		missing property	tree rules
2	carry in a quote	past	Ali	the eggs	carefully property	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent egg=Theme
3	test	infinitive		subject		vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
4	cover	gerund		the adverbial		vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme adverbial=Destination
5	leave	present · passive		the adverbial		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
6	make	must		sense	alone property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset sense=Product

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:6.

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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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