Describing: senses, showing and precise words, sentence 2

Show, don't tell: instead of "She was scared", write what fear looks like ("Her hands shook.

Who acts: you, word, fear, hands · What happens: show, not tell, be, write, look, shook · 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 (you, word, fear, hands), 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	Show	show	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 tell	punct
3	do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	5 tell	aux
4	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 tell	advmod
5	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Show	parataxis
6	:	:	PUNCT	_	1 Show	punct
7	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=ADP	12 scared	case
8	of	of	ADP	_	7 instead	fixed
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 scared	punct
10	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 scared	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 scared	cop
12	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 tell	ccomp
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 scared	punct
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 write	punct
15	write	write	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Show	conj
16	what	what	DET	PronType=Int	17 fear	det
17	fear	fear	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 looks	nsubj
18	looks	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 write	ccomp
19	like	like	SCONJ	_	24 shook	mark
20	(	(	PUNCT	_	24 shook	punct
21	"	"	PUNCT	_	24 shook	punct
22	Her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 hands	nmod:poss
23	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 shook	nsubj
24	shook	shook	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 looks	advcl
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Show	punct

Pragmatics

form: command
act: request
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	show	imperative	you not said here		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	not tell speech: assert	infinitive · do-support			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is in a quote	past	word	scared property	tree rules
4	write	infinitive	you not said here		vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	look	present	what fear		vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
6	shook in a quote	past	word's hands		tree rules

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:2.

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 ×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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