Describing: senses, showing and precise words, sentence 9
"Show, don't tell" means letting actions, body language and details show a feeling instead of naming it.
Who acts: Show, actions · What happens: not tell, mean, let, show, name · To what, where: feeling · 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 (Show, actions), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Show | punct |
| 2 | Show | show | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 means | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 tell | punct |
| 4 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 6 tell | aux |
| 5 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 tell | advmod |
| 6 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 Show | parataxis |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 tell | punct |
| 8 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | letting | let | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 means | csubj |
| 10 | actions | action | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 show | nsubj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 language | punct |
| 12 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 language | compound |
| 13 | language | language | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 actions | conj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 details | cc |
| 15 | details | detail | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 language | conj |
| 16 | show | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 letting | ccomp |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 feeling | det |
| 18 | feeling | feeling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 show | obj |
| 19 | instead | instead | ADV | ExtPos=SCONJ | 21 naming | mark |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 instead | fixed |
| 21 | naming | name | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 16 show | advcl |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 naming | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 means | 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 | not tell speech: assert in a quote | infinitive · do-support | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | mean | present | Show | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | let | gerund | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | show | present | actions and body language and details | a feeling | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent feeling=Recipient | ||||
| 5 | name | gerund | actions and body language and details not said here | feeling | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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:9.
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 ×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.
See the release 0.4.
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