Planning before writing, sentence 7
Without a plan, writers often run out of ideas in the middle or cannot find an ending.
Who acts: writers · What happens: run, not find · To what, where: ideas, ending
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 (writers), 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 | Without | without | ADP | _ | 3 plan | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 plan | det |
| 3 | plan | plan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 run | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 plan | punct |
| 5 | writers | writer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 run | nsubj |
| 6 | often | often | ADV | _ | 7 run | advmod |
| 7 | run | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | out | out | ADP | _ | 10 ideas | case |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 ideas | case |
| 10 | ideas | idea | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 run | obl |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 middle | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 middle | det |
| 13 | middle | middle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 run | obl |
| 14 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 17 find | cc |
| 15 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 find | aux |
| 16 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 find | advmod |
| 17 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 run | conj |
| 18 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 ending | det |
| 19 | ending | ending | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 find | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 run | 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 | run | present | writers | ideas | without a plan; in the middle; often property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme out idea=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | not find | can | writers not said here | a ending | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ending=Topic |
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:7.
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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