Describing: senses, showing and precise words, sentence 13

Asking "what made it scary?" or "what did it look like?" turns a plain statement into description.

Who acts: simile · What happens: ask, make, look, turn · To what, where: simile, plain statement, description · Speech: someone speaks here

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	Asking	ask	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 turns	advcl
2	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 made	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 made	nsubj
4	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Asking	ccomp
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 made	obj
6	scary	scary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 made	xcomp
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 made	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 made	punct
9	or	or	CCONJ	_	14 look	cc
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 look	punct
11	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	14 look	obl
12	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 look	aux
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 look	nsubj
14	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 made	conj
15	like	like	ADP	_	11 what	case
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Asking	punct
17	"	"	PUNCT	_	1 Asking	punct
18	turns	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 statement	det
20	plain	plain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 statement	amod
21	statement	statement	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 turns	obj
22	into	into	ADP	_	23 description	case
23	description	description	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 turns	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 turns	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed form=decl, act=assert, voice=narrator

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	gerund					vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	make in a quote	past		simile		scary property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material it=Product
3	look in a quote	past · do-support	simile				vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
4	turn	present		a plain statement	description		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent statement=Theme into description=Trajectory

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:13.

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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-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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