Editing and redrafting, sentence 12
A thesaurus gives words with similar meanings, but not every synonym fits the sentence or the reader.
Who acts: thesaurus, synonym · What happens: give, fit · To what, where: words, sentence
This is a sentence of the lesson «Editing and redrafting» 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 (thesaurus, synonym), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 thesaurus | det |
| 2 | thesaurus | thesaurus | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 gives | nsubj |
| 3 | gives | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 gives | obj |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 meanings | case |
| 6 | similar | similar | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 meanings | amod |
| 7 | meanings | meaning | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 words | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 fits | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 fits | cc |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 synonym | advmod |
| 11 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 12 synonym | det |
| 12 | synonym | synonym | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 fits | nsubj |
| 13 | fits | fit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 gives | conj |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 sentence | det |
| 15 | sentence | sentence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 fits | obj |
| 16 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 18 reader | cc |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 reader | det |
| 18 | reader | reader | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 sentence | conj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 gives | 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 | a thesaurus | words | with similar meanings | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Theme | |||
| 2 | fit | present | every synonym | the sentence or the reader | vn adjust-26.9 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sentence=Patient |
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:043-editing-and-redrafting.lesson:12.
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.
See the release 0.4.
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