Spoken language: presenting and show-and-tell, sentence 7
A good show-and-tell says what the object is, why it is special and one interesting fact about it.
Who acts: good show, object · What happens: say, be · 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 show, object), 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 show | det |
| 2 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 show | amod |
| 3 | show | show | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 says | nsubj |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 show | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 tell | cc |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 tell | punct |
| 7 | tell | tell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 show | conj |
| 8 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 8 says | ccomp |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 object | det |
| 11 | object | object | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 what | nsubj |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 what | cop |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 special | punct |
| 14 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 17 special | advmod |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 special | nsubj |
| 16 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 special | cop |
| 17 | special | special | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 what | parataxis |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 fact | cc |
| 19 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 21 fact | nummod |
| 20 | interesting | interesting | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 fact | amod |
| 21 | fact | fact | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 special | conj |
| 22 | about | about | ADP | _ | 23 it | case |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 fact | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 says | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | a good show and tell | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is a | present | the object | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | is | present | object | special 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:7.
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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