Spoken language: presenting and show-and-tell, sentence 14
Confident speakers still feel nervous; practising, breathing slowly and starting with a smile help.
Who acts: Confident speakers · What happens: feel, practise, breathe, start, help
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 (Confident speakers), 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 | Confident | confident | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 speakers | amod |
| 2 | speakers | speaker | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 feel | nsubj |
| 3 | still | still | ADV | _ | 4 feel | advmod |
| 4 | feel | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | nervous | nervous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 feel | xcomp |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 4 feel | punct |
| 7 | practising | practise | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 help | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 breathing | punct |
| 9 | breathing | breathe | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 practising | conj |
| 10 | slowly | slowly | ADV | _ | 9 breathing | advmod |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 starting | cc |
| 12 | starting | start | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 practising | conj |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 smile | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 smile | det |
| 15 | smile | smile | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 starting | obl |
| 16 | help | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 feel | conj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 feel | 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 | feel | present | Confident speakers | still | nervous property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | practise | gerund | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | breathe | gerund | slowly property | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | start | gerund | with a smile | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V PP.subeventuality»: agent=Eventuality with smile=Subeventuality | |||||
| 5 | help | present | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: 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:14.
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.
See the release 0.4.
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