Planning before writing, sentence 5
A letter to the council needs a different voice from a note to your best mate.
Who acts: letter · What happens: need · To what, where: different voice, note
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 (letter), 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 letter | det |
| 2 | letter | letter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 needs | nsubj |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 council | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 council | det |
| 5 | council | council | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 letter | nmod |
| 6 | needs | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 voice | det |
| 8 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 voice | amod |
| 9 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 needs | obj |
| 10 | from | from | ADP | _ | 12 note | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 note | det |
| 12 | note | note | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 voice | nmod |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 mate | case |
| 14 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 mate | nmod:poss |
| 15 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 16 mate | amod |
| 16 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 note | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 needs | 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 | need | present | a letter to the council | a different voice | a note to your best mate | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot voice=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:5.
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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