Planning before writing, sentence 4
Every plan starts with two questions: who will read this, and why am I writing it?
Who acts: plan, I · What happens: start, read, write · To what, where: this, plan
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, I), 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 | Every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 plan | det |
| 2 | plan | plan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 starts | nsubj |
| 3 | starts | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 questions | case |
| 5 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 questions | nummod |
| 6 | questions | question | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 starts | obl |
| 7 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 3 starts | punct |
| 8 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 read | nsubj |
| 9 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 read | aux |
| 10 | read | read | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 starts | conj |
| 11 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 read | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 writing | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 writing | cc |
| 14 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 17 writing | advmod |
| 15 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 writing | aux |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 writing | nsubj |
| 17 | writing | write | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 read | conj |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 writing | obj |
| 19 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 starts | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- yes/no question
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed voice=narrator
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | start | present | every plan | with two questions | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V PP.subeventuality»: agent=Eventuality with question=Subeventuality | ||||
| 2 | read | future | this | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Topic | |||||
| 3 | write | present · progressive | I | plan | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
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:4.
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.
See the release 0.4.
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