Putting it together: reading and writing like a writer, sentence 10
In written dialogue, speech marks go around the words spoken, and each new speaker starts a new line.
Who acts: speech marks, new speaker · What happens: write, go, speak, start · To what, where: written dialogue, words, new line · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Putting it together: reading and writing like a writer» 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 (speech marks, new speaker), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 dialogue | case |
| 2 | written | write | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 dialogue | amod |
| 3 | dialogue | dialogue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 go | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 go | punct |
| 5 | speech | speech | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 marks | compound |
| 6 | marks | mark | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 go | nsubj |
| 7 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | around | around | ADP | _ | 10 words | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 words | det |
| 10 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 go | obl |
| 11 | spoken | speak | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 words | acl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 starts | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 starts | cc |
| 14 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 16 speaker | det |
| 15 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 speaker | amod |
| 16 | speaker | speaker | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 starts | nsubj |
| 17 | starts | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 go | conj |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 line | det |
| 19 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 line | amod |
| 20 | line | line | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 starts | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 go | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | write | participle | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | go | present | speech marks | written dialogue | around the words | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme around word=Initial_Location | |||
| 3 | speak speech: other | participle | the words not said here | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | start | present | each new speaker | a new line | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent line=Eventuality |
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:054-reading-and-writing-like-a-writer.lesson:10.
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): 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.
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