Tricky words and common exception words, sentence 1

Schools call them tricky words or common exception words, and the National Curriculum in England lists them for each year: «said», «was», «because», «people», «friend».

Who acts: Schools, National Curriculum · What happens: call, list, say, be · To what, where: rules, « · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Tricky words and common exception words» 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 (Schools, National Curriculum), 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	Schools	school	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 call	nsubj
2	call	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 call	obj
4	tricky	tricky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 words	amod
5	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 call	obj
6	or	or	CCONJ	_	9 words	cc
7	common	common	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 words	amod
8	exception	exception	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 words	compound
9	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 words	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 lists	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 lists	cc
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 Curriculum	det
13	National	National	PROPN	_	14 Curriculum	compound
14	Curriculum	curriculum	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 lists	nsubj
15	in	in	ADP	_	16 England	case
16	England	England	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 Curriculum	nmod
17	lists	list	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 call	conj
18	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 lists	obj
19	for	for	ADP	_	21 year	case
20	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	21 year	det
21	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 lists	obl
22	:	:	PUNCT	_	24 said	punct
23	«	«	PUNCT	_	24 said	punct
24	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 call	advcl
25	»	»	PUNCT	_	24 said	punct
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 «	punct
27	«	«	PUNCT	_	28 was	punct
28	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 «	cop
29	»	»	PUNCT	_	28 was	punct
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 «	punct
31	«	«	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 call	parataxis
32	because	because	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	33 »	case
33	»	»	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 call	obl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 people	punct
35	«	«	PUNCT	_	36 people	punct
36	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 call	obl
37	»	»	PUNCT	_	36 people	punct
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 friend	punct
39	«	«	PUNCT	_	40 friend	punct
40	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 call	parataxis
41	»	»	PUNCT	_	40 friend	punct
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 call	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	call speech: assert	present	Schools	rules = rule		because »; people obl	tree rules
2	list	present	the National Curriculum in England	rules = rule	year		tree rules
3	say speech: assert in a quote	past	Schools not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	is a	past		«			tree rules

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:003-tricky-words-and-common-exception-words.lesson:1.

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 ×4, 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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