Spoken language: presenting and show-and-tell, sentence 2
A good talk has a clear start (say what it is about, with a hook to grab attention), a middle (a few key points) and an end (sum up, then take questions).
Who acts: good talk · What happens: have, say, be, grab, sum up, take · To what, where: clear start, attention, questions · 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 (good talk), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 talk | det |
| 2 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 talk | amod |
| 3 | talk | talk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 has | nsubj |
| 4 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 start | det |
| 6 | clear | clear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 start | amod |
| 7 | start | start | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 has | obj |
| 8 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 9 say | punct |
| 9 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 has | parataxis |
| 10 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 17 hook | nsubj |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 hook | nsubj |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 hook | cop |
| 13 | about | about | ADV | _ | 17 hook | advmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 hook | punct |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 hook | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 hook | det |
| 17 | hook | hook | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 say | obl |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 grab | mark |
| 19 | grab | grab | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 hook | acl |
| 20 | attention | attention | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 grab | obj |
| 21 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 9 say | punct |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 middle | punct |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 middle | det |
| 24 | middle | middle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 start | conj |
| 25 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 29 points | punct |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 points | det |
| 27 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 points | amod |
| 28 | key | key | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 points | amod |
| 29 | points | point | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 middle | appos |
| 30 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 29 points | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 end | cc |
| 32 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 end | det |
| 33 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 middle | conj |
| 34 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 35 sum | punct |
| 35 | sum | sum | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 33 end | parataxis |
| 36 | up | up | PART | _ | 35 sum | compound:prt |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 take | punct |
| 38 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 39 take | advmod |
| 39 | take | take | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 35 sum | conj |
| 40 | questions | question | NOUN | Number=Plur | 39 take | obj |
| 41 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 39 take | punct |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 has | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | a good talk | a clear start and a middle and a end | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent start=Patient | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | infinitive | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | is | present | with a hook; about property | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | grab | to-infinitive | attention | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent attention=Theme | |||||
| 5 | sum up | infinitive | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 6 | take | infinitive | questions | then | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent question=Theme |
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:2.
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. 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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