Tricky words and common exception words, sentence 26
Dyslexia is a lasting difficulty with reading and spelling; only a specialist can identify it, never from one mistake.
Who acts: Dyslexia, specialist · What happens: be, identify · To what, where: lasting difficulty, Dyslexia, one mistake
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 (Dyslexia, specialist), 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 | Dyslexia | dyslexia | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 difficulty | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 difficulty | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 difficulty | det |
| 4 | lasting | lasting | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 difficulty | amod |
| 5 | difficulty | difficulty | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 reading | case |
| 7 | reading | reading | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 difficulty | nmod |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 spelling | cc |
| 9 | spelling | spelling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 reading | conj |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 5 difficulty | punct |
| 11 | only | only | ADV | _ | 13 specialist | advmod |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 specialist | det |
| 13 | specialist | specialist | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 identify | nsubj |
| 14 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 identify | aux |
| 15 | identify | identify | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 difficulty | parataxis |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 identify | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 mistake | punct |
| 18 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 21 mistake | advmod |
| 19 | from | from | ADP | _ | 21 mistake | case |
| 20 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 21 mistake | nummod |
| 21 | mistake | mistake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 identify | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 difficulty | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Dyslexia | a lasting difficulty | with reading and spelling | tree rules | |||
| 2 | identify | can | a specialist | Dyslexia | one mistake | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
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:26.
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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