Brackets, dashes, colons, semicolons and hyphens, sentence 2
A colon is a drum roll after a complete sentence: something is coming, a list or an explanation ("You need three things: pens, paper and glue").
Who acts: colon, something, You · What happens: be, come, need · To what, where: drum roll, three things
This is a sentence of the lesson «Brackets, dashes, colons, semicolons and hyphens» 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 (colon, something, 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 colon | det |
| 2 | colon | colon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 roll | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 roll | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 roll | det |
| 5 | drum | drum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 roll | compound |
| 6 | roll | roll | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | after | after | ADP | _ | 10 sentence | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 sentence | det |
| 9 | complete | complete | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 sentence | amod |
| 10 | sentence | sentence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 roll | nmod |
| 11 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 14 coming | punct |
| 12 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 14 coming | nsubj |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 coming | aux |
| 14 | coming | come | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 sentence | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 list | punct |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 list | det |
| 17 | list | list | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 roll | conj |
| 18 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 20 explanation | cc |
| 19 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 explanation | det |
| 20 | explanation | explanation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 list | conj |
| 21 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 24 need | punct |
| 22 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 24 need | punct |
| 23 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 24 need | nsubj |
| 24 | need | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 explanation | acl:relcl |
| 25 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 26 things | nummod |
| 26 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 need | obj |
| 27 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 28 pens | punct |
| 28 | pens | pen | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 things | appos |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 paper | punct |
| 30 | paper | paper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 pens | conj |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 glue | cc |
| 32 | glue | glue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 paper | conj |
| 33 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 24 need | punct |
| 34 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 24 need | punct |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 roll | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed voice=narrator
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | a colon | a drum roll and a list or a explanation | after a complete sentence | tree rules | |||
| 2 | come | present · progressive | something | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | need in a quote | present | You | three things | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot thing=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:036-brackets-dashes-colons-semicolons-and-hyphens.lesson:2.
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 ×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.
See the release 0.4.
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