Describing: senses, showing and precise words, sentence 12
A cliché simile has been used so often that it no longer surprises, like "as quiet as a mouse".
Who acts: simile · What happens: use, surprise · To what, where: cliché simile
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 (simile), 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 | 3 simile | det |
| 2 | cliché | cliché | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 simile | compound |
| 3 | simile | simile | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 used | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 used | aux |
| 5 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 used | aux:pass |
| 6 | used | use | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | so | so | ADV | _ | 8 often | advmod |
| 8 | often | often | ADV | _ | 6 used | advmod |
| 9 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 surprises | mark |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 surprises | nsubj |
| 11 | no | no | ADV | _ | 12 longer | advmod |
| 12 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 13 surprises | advmod |
| 13 | surprises | surprise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 used | advcl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 quiet | punct |
| 15 | like | like | ADP | _ | 18 quiet | case |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 quiet | punct |
| 17 | as | as | ADV | _ | 18 quiet | advmod |
| 18 | quiet | quiet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 used | parataxis |
| 19 | as | as | ADP | _ | 21 mouse | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 mouse | det |
| 21 | mouse | mouse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 quiet | nmod |
| 22 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 quiet | punct |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 used | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | use | present · perfect · passive | a cliché simile | often property | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: subject=Theme clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | surprise | present | simile | long property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP-PRO-ARB»: agent=Stimulus |
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:12.
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 ×2. 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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