Planning before writing, sentence 0
A plan is a map you draw before a journey: a few words or pictures that show where your writing starts, where it goes and how it ends, so you don't get lost halfway.
Who acts: plan, you, few words, writing, your · What happens: be, draw, show, start, go, end · To what, where: map, you · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Planning before writing» 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 (plan, you, few words, writing), 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 plan | det |
| 2 | plan | plan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 map | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 map | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 map | det |
| 5 | map | map | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 draw | nsubj |
| 7 | draw | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 map | acl:relcl |
| 8 | before | before | ADP | _ | 10 journey | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 journey | det |
| 10 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 draw | obl |
| 11 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 14 words | punct |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 words | det |
| 13 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 words | amod |
| 14 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 journey | appos |
| 15 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 16 pictures | cc |
| 16 | pictures | picture | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 words | conj |
| 17 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 show | nsubj |
| 18 | show | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 words | acl:relcl |
| 19 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 22 starts | advmod |
| 20 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 writing | nmod:poss |
| 21 | writing | writing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 starts | nsubj |
| 22 | starts | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 show | ccomp |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 goes | punct |
| 24 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 26 goes | advmod |
| 25 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 goes | nsubj |
| 26 | goes | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 starts | conj |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 ends | cc |
| 28 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 30 ends | advmod |
| 29 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 ends | nsubj |
| 30 | ends | end | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 goes | conj |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 lost | punct |
| 32 | so | so | ADV | _ | 37 lost | advmod |
| 33 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 37 lost | nsubj |
| 34 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 37 lost | aux |
| 35 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 37 lost | advmod |
| 36 | get | get | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 37 lost | aux:pass |
| 37 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 map | parataxis |
| 38 | halfway | halfway | ADV | _ | 37 lost | advmod |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 map | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | a plan | a map | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | draw | present | you | a map not said here | before a journey | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent map=Theme | |||
| 3 | show | present | a few words or pictures | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | start | present | your writing | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 5 | go | present | writing | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | end | present | writing | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 7 | not lose | present · passive · do-support | you | halfway property | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | ||||
| 8 | write | your | nom writing «act transitive»: poss=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:039-planning-before-writing.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): 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.
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