Planning before writing, sentence 14
Many schools now ask to see the plan, because it shows the writer's thinking.
Who acts: Many schools, plan, writer · What happens: ask, see, show, think · To what, where: plan, thinking
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 (Many schools, plan, writer), 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 | Many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 schools | amod |
| 2 | schools | school | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 ask | nsubj |
| 3 | now | now | ADV | _ | 4 ask | advmod |
| 4 | ask | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 see | mark |
| 6 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 ask | xcomp |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 plan | det |
| 8 | plan | plan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 see | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 shows | punct |
| 10 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 12 shows | mark |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 shows | nsubj |
| 12 | shows | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 ask | advcl |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 writer | det |
| 14 | writer | writer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 thinking | nmod:poss |
| 15 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 14 writer | case |
| 16 | thinking | thinking | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 shows | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 ask | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | present | Many schools | now | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | see not said to happen | to-infinitive | Many schools not said here | the plan | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer plan=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | show | present | plan | the writer's thinking | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent thinking=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | think | the writer | nom thinking «cognition 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:14.
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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