Spoken language: presenting and show-and-tell, sentence 6

Show-and-tell builds confidence in speaking to a group; the object does not need to be exciting, because the talk matters more.

Who acts: Show tell, object, talk · What happens: build, speak, not need, be, matter · To what, where: confidence · 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 (Show tell, object, 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	Show	show	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 tell	compound
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 confidence	punct
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 confidence	cc
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 and	punct
5	tell	tell	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 builds	nsubj
6	builds	build	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	confidence	confidence	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 builds	obj
8	in	in	SCONJ	_	9 speaking	mark
9	speaking	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 confidence	nmod
10	to	to	ADP	_	12 group	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 group	det
12	group	group	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 speaking	obl
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 need	punct
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 object	det
15	object	object	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 need	nsubj
16	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 need	aux
17	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	18 need	advmod
18	need	need	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 builds	parataxis
19	to	to	PART	_	21 exciting	mark
20	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	21 exciting	cop
21	exciting	exciting	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 need	xcomp
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 need	punct
23	because	because	SCONJ	_	26 matters	mark
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 talk	det
25	talk	talk	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 matters	nsubj
26	matters	matter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 need	advcl
27	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	26 matters	advmod
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Show	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	build	present	Show tell	confidence		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset confidence=Product
2	speak speech: other	gerund			to a group	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to group=Co-Agent
3	not need	present · do-support	the object			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Pivot
4	is not said to happen	to-infinitive	the object not said here		exciting property	tree rules
5	matter	present	the talk			vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus

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:6.

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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2. 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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