Handwriting: holding the pencil and joining up, sentence 14
But neat letters and good writing are different skills: a brilliant story can come in messy letters, and the two are marked separately.
Who acts: neat letters, brilliant story · What happens: be, come, mark · To what, where: different skills, messy letters, two
This is a sentence of the lesson «Handwriting: holding the pencil and joining up» 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 (neat letters, brilliant story), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 skills | cc |
| 2 | neat | neat | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 letters | amod |
| 3 | letters | letter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 skills | nsubj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 writing | cc |
| 5 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 writing | amod |
| 6 | writing | writing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 letters | conj |
| 7 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 skills | cop |
| 8 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 skills | amod |
| 9 | skills | skill | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 10 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 15 come | punct |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 story | det |
| 12 | brilliant | brilliant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 story | amod |
| 13 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 come | nsubj |
| 14 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 come | aux |
| 15 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 skills | parataxis |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 letters | case |
| 17 | messy | messy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 letters | amod |
| 18 | letters | letter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 come | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 marked | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 marked | cc |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 two | det |
| 22 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 24 marked | nsubj:pass |
| 23 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 marked | aux:pass |
| 24 | marked | mark | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 come | conj |
| 25 | separately | separately | ADV | _ | 24 marked | advmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 skills | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | neat letters and good writing | different skills | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | come | can | a brilliant story | messy letters | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in letter=Location | ||||
| 3 | mark | present · passive | the two | separately property | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: subject=Destination |
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:005-handwriting-holding-the-pencil-and-joining-up.lesson:14.
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): R7-rel-agree ×1. 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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