Describing: senses, showing and precise words, sentence 7
Precise words give a clearer picture than general words like nice, good, big or bad.
Who acts: Precise words · What happens: give · To what, where: clearer picture
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 (Precise words), 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 | Precise | precise | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 words | amod |
| 2 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 give | nsubj |
| 3 | give | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 picture | det |
| 5 | clearer | clearer | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 6 picture | amod |
| 6 | picture | picture | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 give | obj |
| 7 | than | than | ADP | _ | 9 words | case |
| 8 | general | general | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 words | amod |
| 9 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 picture | nmod |
| 10 | like | like | ADP | _ | 11 nice | case |
| 11 | nice | nice | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 words | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 good | punct |
| 13 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 nice | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 big | punct |
| 15 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 nice | conj |
| 16 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 17 bad | cc |
| 17 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 nice | conj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 give | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | present | Precise words | a clearer picture | than general words like nice | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent picture=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:7.
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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