Spoken language: presenting and show-and-tell, sentence 0
Giving a talk is a skill, like riding a bike: wobbly at first, smoother with every practice.
Who acts: Giving · What happens: give, be, ride · To what, where: talk, skill, bike
This is a sentence of the lesson «Spoken language: presenting and show-and-tell» 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 (Giving), 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 | Giving | give | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 skill | csubj |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 talk | det |
| 3 | talk | talk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Giving | obj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 skill | cop |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 skill | det |
| 6 | skill | skill | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 riding | punct |
| 8 | like | like | SCONJ | _ | 9 riding | mark |
| 9 | riding | ride | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 skill | advcl |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 bike | det |
| 11 | bike | bike | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 riding | obj |
| 12 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 13 wobbly | punct |
| 13 | wobbly | wobbly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 riding | parataxis |
| 14 | at | at | ADP | _ | 15 first | case |
| 15 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 13 wobbly | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 practice | punct |
| 17 | smoother | smoother | ADV | _ | 20 practice | advmod |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 practice | case |
| 19 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 20 practice | det |
| 20 | practice | practice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Giving | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 skill | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | gerund | a talk | with every practice | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent talk=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | Giving | a skill | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | ride | gerund | Giving not said here | a bike | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bike=Theme |
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:048-spoken-language-presenting-and-show-and-tell.lesson:0.
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): no change. 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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