SATs: the reading paper, sentence 12
Many questions need evidence from the text: a quote or a clear detail, not just your opinion.
Who acts: Many questions, your · What happens: need, opine · To what, where: evidence, text
This is a sentence of the lesson «SATs: the reading paper» 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 (Many questions, your), 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 | Many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 questions | amod |
| 2 | questions | question | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 need | nsubj |
| 3 | need | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | evidence | evidence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 need | obj |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 text | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 text | det |
| 7 | text | text | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 evidence | nmod |
| 8 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 10 quote | punct |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 quote | det |
| 10 | quote | quote | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 evidence | conj |
| 11 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 14 detail | cc |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 detail | det |
| 13 | clear | clear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 detail | amod |
| 14 | detail | detail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 quote | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 opinion | punct |
| 16 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 opinion | advmod |
| 17 | just | just | ADV | _ | 19 opinion | advmod |
| 18 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 opinion | nmod:poss |
| 19 | opinion | opinion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 quote | conj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 need | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | need | present | Many questions | evidence and a quote or a clear detail and your opinion | the text | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot evidence=Theme | |||
| 2 | opine | your | nom opinion «cognition transitive»: poss=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:051-sats-the-reading-paper.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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