Paragraphs and cohesion: holding a text together, sentence 8

The first sentence of a paragraph often tells the reader what it is about; it is called a topic sentence.

Who acts: first sentence · What happens: tell, be, call, sentence · To what, where: reader, paragraph · 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 (first sentence), 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	3 sentence	det
2	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	3 sentence	amod
3	sentence	sentence	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 tells	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 paragraph	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 paragraph	det
6	paragraph	paragraph	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sentence	nmod
7	often	often	ADV	_	8 tells	advmod
8	tells	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 reader	det
10	reader	reader	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 tells	iobj
11	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	14 about	obj
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 is	nsubj
13	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 about	cop
14	about	about	ADV	_	8 tells	ccomp
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 called	punct
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 called	nsubj:pass
17	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 called	aux:pass
18	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 tells	parataxis
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 sentence	det
20	topic	topic	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 sentence	compound
21	sentence	sentence	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 called	xcomp
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 tells	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	present	the first sentence of a paragraph		the reader	often property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent reader=Recipient
2	is	present				about property	tree rules
3	call	present · passive		paragraph			vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient
4	sentence			a paragraph			nom sentence «communication transitive»: of=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:8.

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): R2-punct-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3. 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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