Editing and redrafting, sentence 4
Upgrading words is good until it isn't: "He ambulated to the edifice" for "He walked to the building" sounds like a robot swallowed a dictionary; the goal is the right word, not the longest one.
Who acts: Upgrading, reader, bark, robot, goal · What happens: upgrade, be, not be, ambulate, walk, sound · To what, where: words, edifice, building, dictionary, right word · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Upgrading, reader, bark, robot), 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 | Upgrading | upgrade | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 good | csubj |
| 2 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Upgrading | obj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 good | cop |
| 4 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 7 is | mark |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 is | nsubj |
| 7 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 good | advcl |
| 8 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 is | advmod |
| 9 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 12 ambulated | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 ambulated | punct |
| 11 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 ambulated | nsubj |
| 12 | ambulated | ambulate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 good | parataxis |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 edifice | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 edifice | det |
| 15 | edifice | edifice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 ambulated | obl |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 " | punct |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 " | case |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 walked | punct |
| 19 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 walked | nsubj |
| 20 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 ambulated | advcl |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 building | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 building | det |
| 23 | building | building | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 walked | obl |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 walked | punct |
| 25 | sounds | sound | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 ambulated | conj |
| 26 | like | like | SCONJ | _ | 29 swallowed | mark |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 robot | det |
| 28 | robot | robot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 swallowed | nsubj |
| 29 | swallowed | swallow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 sounds | advcl |
| 30 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 dictionary | det |
| 31 | dictionary | dictionary | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 swallowed | obj |
| 32 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 38 word | punct |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 goal | det |
| 34 | goal | goal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 word | nsubj |
| 35 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 38 word | cop |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 word | det |
| 37 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 word | amod |
| 38 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 good | parataxis |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 one | punct |
| 40 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 43 one | advmod |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 one | det |
| 42 | longest | long | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 43 one | amod |
| 43 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 word | parataxis |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 good | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | upgrade | gerund | words | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Theme | |||||
| 2 | is | present | Upgrading | good property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | not be | present | reader | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | ambulate in a quote | past | bark | the edifice | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to edifice=Destination | ||||
| 5 | walk in a quote | past | bark | the building | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to building=Destination | ||||
| 6 | sound | present | bark not said here | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 7 | swallow | past | a robot | a dictionary | vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dictionary=Patient | ||||
| 8 | is a | present | the goal | the right word | 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:043-editing-and-redrafting.lesson:4.
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 ×2, 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.
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