Writing to inform, instruct and persuade, sentence 9
A recount retells events in time order, usually in the past tense, using time words like first, then, after that and finally.
Who acts: recount · What happens: retell, use · To what, where: events, time order, time words
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 (recount), 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 recount | det |
| 2 | recount | recount | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 retells | nsubj |
| 3 | retells | retell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | events | event | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 retells | obj |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 order | case |
| 6 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 order | compound |
| 7 | order | order | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 events | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 tense | punct |
| 9 | usually | usually | ADV | _ | 13 tense | advmod |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 tense | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 tense | det |
| 12 | past | past | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 tense | amod |
| 13 | tense | tense | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 retells | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 using | punct |
| 15 | using | use | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 retells | advcl |
| 16 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 words | compound |
| 17 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 using | obj |
| 18 | like | like | ADP | _ | 19 first | case |
| 19 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 17 words | advmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 then | punct |
| 21 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 24 that | advmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 then | punct |
| 23 | after | after | ADP | _ | 24 that | case |
| 24 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 15 using | obl |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 finally | cc |
| 26 | finally | finally | ADV | _ | 24 that | conj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 retells | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=assert
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | retell | present | a recount | events | time order | in the past tense | tree rules | ||
| 2 | use | gerund | a recount not said here | time words | after that | 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: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): R6-punct-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.
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