Planning before writing, sentence 10

A storyboard is a plan made of pictures in boxes, like a comic; it suits young writers and anyone who thinks in pictures, and film makers plan their films with storyboards too.

Who acts: storyboard, film makers, makers · What happens: be, made, suit, think, plan, film · To what, where: plan, young writers, pictures, films

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 (storyboard, film makers, makers), 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 storyboard	det
2	storyboard	storyboard	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 plan	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 plan	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 plan	det
5	plan	plan	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	made	made	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 plan	acl
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 pictures	case
8	pictures	picture	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 made	obl
9	in	in	ADP	_	10 boxes	case
10	boxes	box	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 pictures	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 comic	punct
12	like	like	ADP	_	14 comic	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 comic	det
14	comic	comic	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 made	obl
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 suits	punct
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 suits	nsubj
17	suits	suit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 plan	parataxis
18	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 writers	amod
19	writers	writer	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 suits	obj
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 anyone	cc
21	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	19 writers	conj
22	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 thinks	nsubj
23	thinks	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 anyone	acl:relcl
24	in	in	ADP	_	25 pictures	case
25	pictures	picture	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 thinks	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 plan	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 plan	cc
28	film	film	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 makers	compound
29	makers	maker	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 plan	nsubj
30	plan	plan	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 suits	conj
31	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 films	nmod:poss
32	films	film	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 plan	obj
33	with	with	ADP	_	34 storyboards	case
34	storyboards	storyboard	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 plan	obl
35	too	too	ADV	_	30 plan	advmod
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 plan	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	present	a storyboard	a plan			tree rules
2	made	participle		a plan not said here		of pictures in boxes; like a comic	tree rules
3	suit	present	storyboard	young writers			tree rules
4	think speech: other	present			pictures		vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	plan	present	film makers	makers's films		with storyboards	vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent film=Topic
6	film		makers = maker				nom film «communication 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:10.

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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