Spoken language: presenting and show-and-tell, sentence 3

Cue cards with key words beat reading every word from a sheet, and slides should hold pictures and a few key words while you say the rest.

Who acts: Cue cards, slides, you · What happens: beat, read, hold, say · To what, where: word, sheet, pictures, rest · 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 (Cue cards, slides, you), 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	Cue	cue	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 cards	compound
2	cards	card	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 beat	nsubj
3	with	with	ADP	_	5 words	case
4	key	key	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 words	amod
5	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 cards	nmod
6	beat	beat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	reading	read	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 beat	xcomp
8	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	9 word	det
9	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 reading	obj
10	from	from	ADP	_	12 sheet	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 sheet	det
12	sheet	sheet	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 word	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 hold	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 hold	cc
15	slides	slide	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 hold	nsubj
16	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 hold	aux
17	hold	hold	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 beat	conj
18	pictures	picture	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 hold	obj
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 words	cc
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 words	det
21	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 words	amod
22	key	key	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 words	amod
23	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 pictures	conj
24	while	while	SCONJ	_	26 say	mark
25	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	26 say	nsubj
26	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 hold	advcl
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 rest	det
28	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 say	obj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 beat	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed act=assert

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	beat	present	Cue cards with key words			tree rules
2	read	gerund	Cue cards with key words not said here	every word	a sheet	vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent word=Topic from sheet=Source
3	hold	should	slides	pictures and a few key words		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent picture=Theme
4	say speech: assert	present	you	the rest		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent rest=Topic

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:3.

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.

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