Spoken language: presenting and show-and-tell, sentence 8
Speaking loudly and clearly enough for the back row matters more than fancy words; this is called projecting your voice.
Who acts: Speaking · What happens: speak, matter, call, project · To what, where: this, voice · 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 (Speaking), 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 | Speaking | speak | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 matters | csubj |
| 2 | loudly | loudly | ADV | _ | 1 Speaking | advmod |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 enough | cc |
| 4 | clearly | clearly | ADV | _ | 5 enough | advmod |
| 5 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 2 loudly | conj |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 row | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 row | det |
| 8 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 row | compound |
| 9 | row | row | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 matters | obl |
| 10 | matters | matter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 10 matters | advmod |
| 12 | than | than | ADP | _ | 14 words | case |
| 13 | fancy | fancy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 words | amod |
| 14 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 more | obl |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 matters | punct |
| 16 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 18 called | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 called | aux:pass |
| 18 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 matters | parataxis |
| 19 | projecting | project | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 18 called | xcomp |
| 20 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 voice | nmod:poss |
| 21 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 projecting | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 matters | 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 | speak speech: other | gerund | loudly property | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | matter | present | Speaking | for the back row | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | call | present · passive | this | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | project | gerund | your voice | vn estimate-34.2-1-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Agent voice=Value |
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:8.
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): R1-cc-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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