Describing: senses, showing and precise words, sentence 16
Adjectives describe nouns and adverbs often describe verbs, but nouns and verbs carry most of a picture.
Who acts: Adjectives, adverbs, nouns · What happens: describe, carry · To what, where: nouns, verbs, most
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 (Adjectives, adverbs, nouns), 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 | Adjectives | adjective | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 describe | nsubj |
| 2 | describe | describe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | nouns | noun | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 describe | obj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 describe | cc |
| 5 | adverbs | adverb | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 describe | nsubj |
| 6 | often | often | ADV | _ | 7 describe | advmod |
| 7 | describe | describe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 describe | conj |
| 8 | verbs | verb | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 describe | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 carry | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 carry | cc |
| 11 | nouns | noun | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 carry | nsubj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 verbs | cc |
| 13 | verbs | verb | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 nouns | conj |
| 14 | carry | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 describe | conj |
| 15 | most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 14 carry | obj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 picture | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 picture | det |
| 18 | picture | picture | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 most | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 describe | 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 | describe | present | Adjectives | nouns | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent noun=Theme | ||||
| 2 | describe | present | adverbs | verbs | often property | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent verb=Theme | |||
| 3 | carry | present | nouns and verbs | most of a picture | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent most=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:041-describing-senses-showing-and-precise-words.lesson:16.
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.
See the release 0.4.
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