Spoken language: presenting and show-and-tell, sentence 12
Register means choosing words to suit your audience: formal language for governors, chattier words for friends.
Who acts: Register · What happens: mean, choose, suit · To what, where: words, audience
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 (Register), 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 | Register | register | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 means | nsubj |
| 2 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | choosing | choose | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 means | xcomp |
| 4 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 choosing | obj |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 suit | mark |
| 6 | suit | suit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 words | acl |
| 7 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 audience | nmod:poss |
| 8 | audience | audience | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 suit | obj |
| 9 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 11 language | punct |
| 10 | formal | formal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 language | amod |
| 11 | language | language | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 words | appos |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 governors | case |
| 13 | governors | governor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 language | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 words | punct |
| 15 | chattier | chatty | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 16 words | amod |
| 16 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 language | nmod |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 friends | case |
| 18 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 words | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 means | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | Register | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | choose not said to happen | gerund | Register not said here | words | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Theme | ||||
| 3 | suit | to-infinitive | Register not said here | your audience | 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:048-spoken-language-presenting-and-show-and-tell.lesson:12.
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): 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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