SATs: grammar, punctuation and spelling paper, sentence 1
Many questions ask what job a word does: an adjective describes a noun ("a quick fox"), and an adverb tells how, when or where something happens ("ran quickly", "ran yesterday").
Who acts: Many questions, word, adjective, adverb, something · What happens: ask, do, describe, tell, happen, run · To what, where: job, noun · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «SATs: grammar, punctuation and spelling 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, word, adjective, adverb), 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 ask | nsubj |
| 3 | ask | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | what | what | DET | PronType=Int | 5 job | det |
| 5 | job | job | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 does | obj |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 word | det |
| 7 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 does | nsubj |
| 8 | does | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 ask | ccomp |
| 9 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 12 describes | punct |
| 10 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 adjective | det |
| 11 | adjective | adjective | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 describes | nsubj |
| 12 | describes | describe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 ask | parataxis |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 noun | det |
| 14 | noun | noun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 describes | obj |
| 15 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 19 fox | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 fox | punct |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 fox | det |
| 18 | quick | quick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 fox | amod |
| 19 | fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 noun | appos |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 fox | punct |
| 21 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 19 fox | punct |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 tells | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 tells | cc |
| 24 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 adverb | det |
| 25 | adverb | adverb | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 tells | nsubj |
| 26 | tells | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 ask | parataxis |
| 27 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 26 tells | advmod |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 when | punct |
| 29 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 33 happens | advmod |
| 30 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 33 happens | cc |
| 31 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 33 happens | advmod |
| 32 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 33 happens | nsubj |
| 33 | happens | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 tells | ccomp |
| 34 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 36 ran | punct |
| 35 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 36 ran | punct |
| 36 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 happens | parataxis |
| 37 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 36 ran | advmod |
| 38 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 36 ran | punct |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 ask | punct |
| 40 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 41 ran | punct |
| 41 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 ask | parataxis |
| 42 | yesterday | yesterday | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 ran | obl:unmarked |
| 43 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 41 ran | punct |
| 44 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 41 ran | punct |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 ask | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=assert
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | present | Many questions | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | do | present | a word | what job | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent job=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | describe | present | a adjective | a noun | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent noun=Theme | ||||
| 4 | tell speech: assert | present | a adverb | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | happen | present | something | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | run in a quote | past | quickly property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 7 | run in a quote | past | yesterday | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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:052-sats-grammar-punctuation-and-spelling-paper.lesson:1.
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): R6-punct-agree ×4, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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.
See the release 0.4.
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