Paragraphs and cohesion: holding a text together, sentence 15
A long paragraph is not wrong, but a paragraph that mixes several ideas is hard to follow.
Who acts: long paragraph, paragraph · What happens: not be, mix, be, follow · To what, where: several ideas
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 (long paragraph, paragraph), 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 | 3 paragraph | det |
| 2 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 paragraph | amod |
| 3 | paragraph | paragraph | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 wrong | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 wrong | cop |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 wrong | advmod |
| 6 | wrong | wrong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 hard | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 hard | cc |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 paragraph | det |
| 10 | paragraph | paragraph | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 hard | nsubj |
| 11 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 mixes | nsubj |
| 12 | mixes | mix | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 paragraph | acl:relcl |
| 13 | several | several | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 ideas | amod |
| 14 | ideas | idea | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 mixes | obj |
| 15 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 hard | cop |
| 16 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 wrong | conj |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 follow | mark |
| 18 | follow | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 hard | xcomp |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 wrong | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- neg
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | present | a long paragraph | wrong property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | mix | present | a paragraph | several ideas | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent idea=Patient | ||||
| 3 | is | present | a paragraph | hard property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | follow | to-infinitive | a paragraph not said here | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=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:037-paragraphs-and-cohesion-holding-a-text-together.lesson:15.
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): no change. 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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