Paragraphs and cohesion: holding a text together, sentence 0

A paragraph is a group of sentences about one thing, and starting a new one tells the reader "something has changed", like a new scene in a film.

Who acts: paragraph, something · What happens: be, start, tell, change · To what, where: group, new one, reader · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Paragraphs and cohesion: holding a text together» 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 (paragraph, something), 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 paragraph	det
2	paragraph	paragraph	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 group	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 group	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 group	det
5	group	group	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 sentences	case
7	sentences	sentence	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 group	nmod
8	about	about	ADP	_	10 thing	case
9	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 thing	nummod
10	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sentences	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 starting	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 starting	cc
13	starting	start	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 group	advcl
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 one	det
15	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 one	amod
16	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 starting	obj
17	tells	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 starting	ccomp
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 reader	det
19	reader	reader	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 tells	iobj
20	"	"	PUNCT	_	23 changed	punct
21	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	23 changed	nsubj
22	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 changed	aux
23	changed	change	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	17 tells	ccomp
24	"	"	PUNCT	_	23 changed	punct
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 scene	punct
26	like	like	ADP	_	29 scene	case
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 scene	det
28	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 scene	amod
29	scene	scene	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 changed	obl
30	in	in	ADP	_	32 film	case
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 film	det
32	film	film	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 scene	nmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 group	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed act=assert

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present	a paragraph	a group		of sentences about one thing	tree rules
2	start	gerund	a paragraph not said here	a new one			tree rules
3	tell speech: assert	present	a paragraph not said here		the reader		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Agent reader=Recipient clause=Topic
4	change in a quote	present · perfect	something			like a new scene in a film	vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: 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:037-paragraphs-and-cohesion-holding-a-text-together.lesson:0.

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 ×2, R7-rel-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.

See the release 0.4.

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