Spoken language: presenting and show-and-tell, sentence 16
Useful feedback says what was good and why, for example "Your facts about lava were really clear"; "That presentation ate" is Gen Z slang for "it was excellent".
Who acts: Useful feedback, facts, presentation, ate · What happens: say, be, ate · To what, where: Gen Z slang · 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 (Useful feedback, facts, presentation, ate), 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 | Useful | useful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 feedback | amod |
| 2 | feedback | feedback | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 says | nsubj |
| 3 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 6 good | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 good | cop |
| 6 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 says | ccomp |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 why | cc |
| 8 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 good | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 clear | punct |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 example | case |
| 11 | example | example | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 clear | obl |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 clear | punct |
| 13 | Your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 facts | nmod:poss |
| 14 | facts | fact | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 clear | nsubj |
| 15 | about | about | ADP | _ | 16 lava | case |
| 16 | lava | lava | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 facts | nmod |
| 17 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 clear | cop |
| 18 | really | really | ADV | _ | 19 clear | advmod |
| 19 | clear | clear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 good | parataxis |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 clear | punct |
| 21 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 30 slang | punct |
| 22 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 25 ate | punct |
| 23 | That | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 24 presentation | det |
| 24 | presentation | presentation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 ate | nsubj |
| 25 | ate | ate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 slang | nsubj |
| 26 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 25 ate | punct |
| 27 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 slang | cop |
| 28 | Gen | gen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 slang | compound |
| 29 | Z | z | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 slang | compound |
| 30 | slang | slang | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 says | parataxis |
| 31 | for | for | ADP | _ | 35 excellent | mark |
| 32 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 35 excellent | punct |
| 33 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 excellent | nsubj |
| 34 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 excellent | cop |
| 35 | excellent | excellent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 slang | acl |
| 36 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 35 excellent | punct |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 says | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- pos
- teacher
- changed voice=narrator
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | Useful feedback | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is | past | good property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | is in a quote | past | Your facts about lava | for example; clear property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | ate in a quote | that presentation | tree rules | ||||||
| 5 | is a | present | ate | Gen Z slang | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | is in a quote | past | ate | Gen Z slang not said here | excellent property | 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:16.
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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3. 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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