Spoken language: presenting and show-and-tell, sentence 1

The audience matters most: speak so the back row can hear, look up at them, and choose words that suit them, chatty for classmates, formal for the school governors (the grown-ups who help run the school).

Who acts: audience, back row, words, grown ups · What happens: matter, speak, hear, look up, choose, suit · To what, where: words, school · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (audience, back row, words, grown ups), 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	2 audience	det
2	audience	audience	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 matters	nsubj
3	matters	matter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	3 matters	advmod
5	:	:	PUNCT	_	6 speak	punct
6	speak	speak	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 matters	parataxis
7	so	so	SCONJ	_	12 hear	mark
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 row	det
9	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 row	compound
10	row	row	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 hear	nsubj
11	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 hear	aux
12	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 speak	advcl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 look	punct
14	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 speak	conj
15	up	up	ADP	_	14 look	compound:prt
16	at	at	ADP	_	17 them	case
17	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 look	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 choose	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 choose	cc
20	choose	choose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 speak	advcl
21	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 choose	obj
22	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 suit	nsubj
23	suit	suit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 words	acl:relcl
24	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 suit	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 chatty	punct
26	chatty	chatty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 words	parataxis
27	for	for	ADP	_	28 classmates	case
28	classmates	classmate	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 chatty	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 formal	punct
30	formal	formal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 classmates	amod
31	for	for	ADP	_	34 governors	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 governors	det
33	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 governors	compound
34	governors	governor	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 formal	obl
35	(	(	PUNCT	_	39 ups	punct
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 ups	det
37	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	39 ups	amod
38	-	-	PUNCT	_	37 grown	punct
39	ups	up	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 governors	appos
40	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	41 help	nsubj
41	help	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	39 ups	acl:relcl
42	run	run	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	41 help	xcomp
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 school	det
44	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 run	obj
45	)	)	PUNCT	_	39 ups	punct
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 matters	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	matter	present	the audience			vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus
2	speak speech: other	infinitive				vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	hear	can	the back row			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer
4	look up	infinitive			at them = they	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at they=Theme
5	choose	infinitive		words		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Theme
6	suit	present	words	words = word		tree rules
7	grow	participle				vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	help	present	the grown ups			vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
9	run	infinitive	the grown ups not said here	the school		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme school=Trajectory

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:1.

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 ×1, R8-pos-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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