Debating and discussion, sentence 12
Summarising both sides fairly before a vote shows you understood them.
Who acts: Summarising, you · What happens: summarise, show, understand · To what, where: sides · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Debating and discussion» 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 (Summarising, 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 | Summarising | summarise | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 shows | csubj |
| 2 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 sides | det |
| 3 | sides | side | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Summarising | obj |
| 4 | fairly | fairly | ADV | _ | 1 Summarising | advmod |
| 5 | before | before | ADP | _ | 7 vote | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 vote | det |
| 7 | vote | vote | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Summarising | obl |
| 8 | shows | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 understood | nsubj |
| 10 | understood | understand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 shows | ccomp |
| 11 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 understood | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 shows | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | summarise | gerund | both sides | before a vote | fairly property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | show | present | Summarising | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | understand | past | you | sides = side | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer they=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:049-debating-and-discussion.lesson:12.
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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