Handwriting: holding the pencil and joining up, sentence 6
Letters started the right way come out even and are much easier to join later.
Who acts: Letters, right way · What happens: start, come out, be, join
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 (Letters, right way), 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 | Letters | letter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 started | nsubj |
| 2 | started | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 way | det |
| 4 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 way | amod |
| 5 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 come | nsubj |
| 6 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 started | ccomp |
| 7 | out | out | ADV | _ | 6 come | advmod |
| 8 | even | even | ADV | _ | 12 easier | advmod |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 easier | cc |
| 10 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 easier | cop |
| 11 | much | much | ADV | _ | 12 easier | advmod |
| 12 | easier | easy | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 6 come | parataxis |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 join | mark |
| 14 | join | join | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 easier | xcomp |
| 15 | later | late | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 14 join | advmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 started | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | start | past | Letters | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | come out | infinitive | the right way | out property | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | is | present | easy property | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | join | to-infinitive | late property | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
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:6.
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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