Debating and discussion, sentence 7
Shouting does not persuade anyone; reasons and evidence do.
Who acts: reasons · What happens: shout, not persuade, do · To what, where: anyone
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 (reasons), 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 | Shouting | shout | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 persuade | nsubj |
| 2 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 persuade | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 persuade | advmod |
| 4 | persuade | persuade | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 do | conj |
| 5 | anyone | anyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 4 persuade | obj |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 1 Shouting | punct |
| 7 | reasons | reason | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 do | nsubj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 evidence | cc |
| 9 | evidence | evidence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 reasons | conj |
| 10 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 do | 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 | shout speech: express | gerund | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | not persuade | present · do-support | anyone | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anyone=Patient | |||||
| 3 | do | present | reasons and evidence | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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: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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