Paragraphs and cohesion: holding a text together, sentence 13
Repeating a key word, or a synonym for it, helps link paragraphs about the same topic.
Who acts: Repeating · What happens: repeat, help, link · To what, where: key word, paragraphs
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 (Repeating), 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 | Repeating | repeat | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 helps | csubj |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 word | det |
| 3 | key | key | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 word | amod |
| 4 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Repeating | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 synonym | punct |
| 6 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 8 synonym | cc |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 synonym | det |
| 8 | synonym | synonym | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 word | conj |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 it | case |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 synonym | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 word | punct |
| 12 | helps | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | link | link | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 helps | xcomp |
| 14 | paragraphs | paragraph | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 link | obj |
| 15 | about | about | ADP | _ | 18 topic | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 topic | det |
| 17 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 topic | amod |
| 18 | topic | topic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 paragraphs | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 helps | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | repeat | gerund | a key word or a synonym for synonym | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | help | present | Repeating | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | link | infinitive | Repeating not said here | paragraphs | about the same topic | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent paragraph=Patient |
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:13.
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, 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.
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