Describing: senses, showing and precise words, sentence 8

Piling up words that mean the same thing (big, huge, enormous) does not add meaning; one well-chosen word is stronger.

Who acts: words, Piling, one chosen word · What happens: pile up, mean, not add, choose, be · To what, where: words, same thing, meaning · 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 (words, Piling, one chosen word), 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	Piling	pile	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 add	csubj
2	up	up	ADP	_	1 Piling	compound:prt
3	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Piling	obj
4	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 mean	nsubj
5	mean	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 words	acl:relcl
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 thing	det
7	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 thing	amod
8	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 mean	obj
9	(	(	PUNCT	_	10 big	punct
10	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 thing	amod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 huge	punct
12	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 big	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 enormous	punct
14	enormous	enormous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 big	conj
15	)	)	PUNCT	_	10 big	punct
16	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 add	aux
17	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	18 add	advmod
18	add	add	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
19	meaning	meaning	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 add	obj
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 stronger	punct
21	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	25 word	nummod
22	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	21 one	fixed
23	-	-	PUNCT	_	22 well	punct
24	chosen	choose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	25 word	amod
25	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 stronger	nsubj
26	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 stronger	cop
27	stronger	strong	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	18 add	parataxis
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 add	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	pile up	gerund		words		vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP.theme V NP»: agent=Theme word=Destination
2	mean	present	words	the same thing		vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Topic
3	not add speech: assert	present · do-support	Piling	meaning		vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meaning=Patient
4	choose	participle				vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	is	present	one chosen word		strong property	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:8.

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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, 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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