SATs: grammar, punctuation and spelling paper, sentence 7
An adjective describes a noun ("a tall tree"); an adverb describes a verb, telling how, when or where ("she sang loudly").
Who acts: adjective, adverb · What happens: describe, tell, sing · To what, where: noun, verb · 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 (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 | An | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 adjective | det |
| 2 | adjective | adjective | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 describes | nsubj |
| 3 | describes | describe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 noun | det |
| 5 | noun | noun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 describes | obj |
| 6 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 10 tree | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 tree | punct |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 tree | det |
| 9 | tall | tall | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 tree | amod |
| 10 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 noun | appos |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 tree | punct |
| 12 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 10 tree | punct |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 describes | punct |
| 14 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 adverb | det |
| 15 | adverb | adverb | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 describes | nsubj |
| 16 | describes | describe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 describes | parataxis |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 verb | det |
| 18 | verb | verb | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 describes | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 telling | punct |
| 20 | telling | tell | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 describes | advcl |
| 21 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 20 telling | advmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 when | punct |
| 23 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 20 telling | advmod |
| 24 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 25 where | cc |
| 25 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 23 when | conj |
| 26 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 29 sang | punct |
| 27 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 29 sang | punct |
| 28 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 sang | nsubj |
| 29 | sang | sing | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 where | advcl:relcl |
| 30 | loudly | loudly | ADV | _ | 29 sang | advmod |
| 31 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 29 sang | punct |
| 32 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 29 sang | punct |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 describes | 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 | describe | present | a adjective | a noun | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent noun=Theme | ||||
| 2 | describe | present | a adverb | a verb | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent verb=Theme | ||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert | gerund | a adverb not said here | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | sing speech: express in a quote | past | adverb | loudly property | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location |
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: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): R6-punct-agree ×2, 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.
See the release 0.4.
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