Planning before writing, sentence 3
A plan should be quick: three or four words for each part are enough, and small children can plan in pictures, called a storyboard; a beautiful colour-coded plan that eats 30 minutes of a 45-minute test leaves no time to write.
Who acts: plan, three words, small children, pictures, beautiful coded plan · What happens: be, plan, call, code, eat, leave · To what, where: pictures, storyboard · 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, three words, small children, pictures), 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 quick | nsubj |
| 3 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 quick | aux |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 quick | cop |
| 5 | quick | quick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 7 three | punct |
| 7 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 words | nummod |
| 8 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 9 four | cc |
| 9 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 three | conj |
| 10 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 enough | nsubj |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 part | case |
| 12 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 13 part | det |
| 13 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 words | nmod |
| 14 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 enough | cop |
| 15 | enough | enough | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 quick | parataxis |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 plan | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 plan | cc |
| 18 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 children | amod |
| 19 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 plan | nsubj |
| 20 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 plan | aux |
| 21 | plan | plan | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 enough | conj |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 pictures | case |
| 23 | pictures | picture | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 plan | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 called | punct |
| 25 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 pictures | acl |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 storyboard | det |
| 27 | storyboard | storyboard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 called | xcomp |
| 28 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 34 plan | punct |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 34 plan | det |
| 30 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 plan | amod |
| 31 | colour | colour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 coded | compound |
| 32 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 31 colour | punct |
| 33 | coded | code | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 34 plan | amod |
| 34 | plan | plan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 leaves | nsubj |
| 35 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 36 eats | nsubj |
| 36 | eats | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 34 plan | acl:relcl |
| 37 | 30 | 30 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 38 minutes | nummod |
| 38 | minutes | minute | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 eats | obj |
| 39 | of | of | ADP | _ | 44 test | case |
| 40 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 44 test | det |
| 41 | 45 | 45 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 43 minute | nummod |
| 42 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 41 45 | punct |
| 43 | minute | minute | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 test | compound |
| 44 | test | test | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 minutes | nmod |
| 45 | leaves | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 quick | conj |
| 46 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 47 time | det |
| 47 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 leaves | obj |
| 48 | to | to | PART | _ | 49 write | mark |
| 49 | write | write | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 47 time | acl |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 quick | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | should | a plan | quick property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | present | three words for each part | enough property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | plan | can | small children | pictures | vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | call | participle | pictures not said here | a storyboard | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | code | participle | vn classify-29.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 6 | eat | present | a beautiful coded plan | minute | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 7 | leave | present | a beautiful coded plan | time | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 8 | write | to-infinitive | a beautiful coded plan not said here | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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:3.
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): R7-rel-agree ×1. 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.
See the release 0.4.
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