Editing and redrafting, sentence 2

The best trick is to read your work aloud, even in a whisper: your ear trips over the gap where "the" is missing long before your eyes notice it.

Who acts: best trick, ear, the, eyes, your · What happens: be, trip, miss, notice, work · To what, where: whisper, gap, ear

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 (best trick, ear, the, eyes), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 trick	det
2	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	3 trick	amod
3	trick	trick	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 read	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 read	cop
5	to	to	PART	_	6 read	mark
6	read	read	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 work	nmod:poss
8	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 read	obj
9	aloud	aloud	ADV	_	6 read	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 whisper	punct
11	even	even	ADV	_	14 whisper	advmod
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 whisper	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 whisper	det
14	whisper	whisper	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 read	obl
15	:	:	PUNCT	_	18 trips	punct
16	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 ear	nmod:poss
17	ear	ear	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 trips	nsubj
18	trips	trip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 read	parataxis
19	over	over	ADP	_	21 gap	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 gap	det
21	gap	gap	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 trips	obl
22	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	27 missing	advmod
23	"	"	PUNCT	_	24 the	punct
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 missing	nsubj
25	"	"	PUNCT	_	24 the	punct
26	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 missing	aux
27	missing	miss	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	21 gap	acl:relcl
28	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	27 missing	advmod
29	before	before	SCONJ	_	32 notice	mark
30	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 eyes	nmod:poss
31	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 notice	nsubj
32	notice	notice	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 missing	advcl
33	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 notice	obj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 read	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	the best trick		a whisper	aloud, read property	tree rules
2	trip	present	your ear		the gap		vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over gap=Trajectory
3	miss	present · progressive	the			long property	vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer
4	notice	present	your eyes	ear			vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus
5	work		your				nom work «act intransitive»: poss=agent

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: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): R6-punct-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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