Describing: senses, showing and precise words, sentence 0

Good description lets the reader stand inside the scene, and the trick is to use more than your eyes: close them in a busy market and you hear the stall-holders shouting, smell the hot doughnuts and feel elbows bumping yours.

Who acts: Good description, reader, trick, you, stall holders, elbows · What happens: let, stand, be, close, hear, shout · To what, where: scene, eyes, stall holders, hot doughnuts, elbows, yours

This is a sentence of the lesson «Describing: senses, showing and precise words» 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 (Good description, reader, trick, you), 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	Good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 description	amod
2	description	description	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lets	nsubj
3	lets	let	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 reader	det
5	reader	reader	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 stand	nsubj
6	stand	stand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 lets	xcomp
7	inside	inside	ADP	_	9 scene	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 scene	det
9	scene	scene	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 stand	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 use	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 use	cc
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 trick	det
13	trick	trick	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 use	nsubj
14	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 use	cop
15	to	to	PART	_	16 use	mark
16	use	use	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 lets	parataxis
17	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	16 use	obj
18	than	than	ADP	_	20 eyes	case
19	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 eyes	nmod:poss
20	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 more	obl
21	:	:	PUNCT	_	22 close	punct
22	close	close	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	16 use	advcl
23	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 close	obj
24	in	in	ADP	_	27 market	case
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 market	det
26	busy	busy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 market	amod
27	market	market	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 close	obl
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 hear	cc
29	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	30 hear	nsubj
30	hear	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 use	conj
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 holders	det
32	stall	stall	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 holders	compound
33	-	-	PUNCT	_	32 stall	punct
34	holders	holder	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 hear	obj
35	shouting	shout	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	34 holders	acl
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 smell	punct
37	smell	smell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 hear	conj
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 doughnuts	det
39	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 doughnuts	amod
40	doughnuts	doughnut	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 smell	obj
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 feel	cc
42	feel	feel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 hear	conj
43	elbows	elbow	NOUN	Number=Plur	42 feel	obj
44	bumping	bump	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	43 elbows	acl
45	yours	your	PRON	Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	44 bumping	obj
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 lets	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	let	present	Good description				tree rules
2	stand	infinitive	the reader		the scene		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent inside scene=Location
3	is	present	the trick			use property	tree rules
4	close	infinitive	the trick not said here	eyes = eye		in a busy market	vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: agent=Agent they=Patient in market=Topic
5	hear	present	you	the stall holders			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer holder=Stimulus
6	shout speech: express	gerund	the stall holders not said here				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	smell	infinitive	you not said here	the hot doughnuts			vn see-30.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer doughnut=Stimulus
8	feel	infinitive	you not said here	elbows			vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent elbow=Theme
9	bump	gerund	elbows not said here	yours			vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent your=Patient

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:041-describing-senses-showing-and-precise-words.lesson:0.

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): R3-conj-first ×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.

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