Fronted adverbials, sentence 7
Use them for variety, not in every sentence.
Who acts: you · What happens: use · To what, where: eggs, 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 (you), 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 | Use | use | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Use | obj |
| 3 | for | for | ADP | _ | 4 variety | case |
| 4 | variety | variety | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Use | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 sentence | punct |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 sentence | advmod |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 sentence | case |
| 8 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 9 sentence | det |
| 9 | sentence | sentence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Use | obl |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Use | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | use | imperative | you not said here | eggs = egg | every sentence | 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:7.
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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