Spoken language: presenting and show-and-tell, sentence 13
Filler words such as "like", "um" and "erm" are natural, but too many distract listeners; a short pause works better.
Who acts: Filler words, many, short pause · What happens: be, distract, work · To what, where: listeners
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 (Filler words, many, short pause), 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 | Filler | filler | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 words | compound |
| 2 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 natural | nsubj |
| 3 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 words | amod |
| 4 | as | as | ADP | _ | 3 such | fixed |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 like | punct |
| 6 | like | like | ADP | _ | 4 as | conj |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 like | punct |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 um | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 um | punct |
| 10 | um | um | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 words | appos |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 um | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 erm | cc |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 erm | punct |
| 14 | erm | erm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 words | conj |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 erm | punct |
| 16 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 natural | cop |
| 17 | natural | natural | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 distract | punct |
| 19 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 22 distract | cc |
| 20 | too | too | ADV | _ | 21 many | advmod |
| 21 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 distract | nsubj |
| 22 | distract | distract | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 natural | conj |
| 23 | listeners | listener | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 distract | obj |
| 24 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 28 works | punct |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 pause | det |
| 26 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 pause | amod |
| 27 | pause | pause | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 works | nsubj |
| 28 | works | work | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 natural | parataxis |
| 29 | better | well | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 28 works | advmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 natural | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- pos
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Filler words and erm | natural property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | distract | present | many | listeners | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus listener=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | work | present | a short pause | well property | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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: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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×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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