Writing to inform, instruct and persuade, sentence 13
An explanation shows how or why something happens, using cause-and-effect words such as because, so and as a result.
Who acts: explanation, something · What happens: show, happen, use · To what, where: cause words · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Writing to inform, instruct and persuade» 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 (explanation, something), 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 | An | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 explanation | det |
| 2 | explanation | explanation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 shows | nsubj |
| 3 | shows | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 8 happens | advmod |
| 5 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 6 why | cc |
| 6 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 8 happens | advmod |
| 7 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 8 happens | nsubj |
| 8 | happens | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 shows | ccomp |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 using | punct |
| 10 | using | use | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 happens | conj |
| 11 | cause | cause | NOUN | _ | 16 words | compound |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 effect | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 effect | cc |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 effect | punct |
| 15 | effect | effect | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 cause | conj |
| 16 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 using | obj |
| 17 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP | 16 words | amod |
| 18 | as | as | ADP | _ | 17 such | fixed |
| 19 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 18 as | fixed |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 result | punct |
| 21 | so | so | ADV | _ | 25 result | cc |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 as | cc |
| 23 | as | as | ADP | _ | 21 so | fixed |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 result | det |
| 25 | result | result | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 using | advcl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 shows | 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 | show | present | a explanation | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | happen | present | something | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | use | gerund | something not said here | cause words | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=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:044-writing-to-inform-instruct-and-persuade.lesson:13.
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): R5-strong ×3. 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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