Planning before writing, sentence 13
A plan can change while you write; it is a guide, not a cage.
Who acts: plan, you · What happens: change, write, be · To what, where: guide
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), 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 | 4 change | nsubj |
| 3 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 change | aux |
| 4 | change | change | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 7 write | mark |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 write | nsubj |
| 7 | write | write | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 change | advcl |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 guide | punct |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 guide | nsubj |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 guide | cop |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 guide | det |
| 12 | guide | guide | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 change | parataxis |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 cage | punct |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 cage | advmod |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 cage | det |
| 16 | cage | cage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 guide | conj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 change | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=assert
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | change | can | a plan | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | write | present | you | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is a | present | plan | a guide and a cage | tree rules |
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: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): 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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