Direct speech: inverted commas and new speakers, sentence 6
The punctuation that ends the spoken words goes inside the closing inverted commas.
Who acts: punctuation · What happens: end, speak, go, close, invert · To what, where: spoken words, closing inverted commas · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Direct speech: inverted commas and new speakers» 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 (punctuation), 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 punctuation | det |
| 2 | punctuation | punctuation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 goes | nsubj |
| 3 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 ends | nsubj |
| 4 | ends | end | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 punctuation | acl:relcl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 words | det |
| 6 | spoken | speak | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 words | amod |
| 7 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 ends | obj |
| 8 | goes | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | inside | inside | ADP | _ | 13 commas | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 commas | det |
| 11 | closing | close | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 commas | amod |
| 12 | inverted | invert | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 commas | amod |
| 13 | commas | comma | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 goes | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 goes | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | end | present | the punctuation | the spoken words | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality word=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | speak speech: other | participle | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | go | present | the punctuation | the closing inverted commas | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme inside comma=Location | ||||
| 4 | close | gerund | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 5 | invert | participle | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent |
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:035-direct-speech-inverted-commas-and-new-speakers.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): R8-pos-agree ×2. 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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