Putting it together: reading and writing like a writer, sentence 13
Writers change their register for their reader: chatty for a friend, formal for a head teacher.
Who acts: Writers, techniques · What happens: change, register · To what, where: register
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 (Writers, techniques), 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 | Writers | writer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 change | nsubj |
| 2 | change | change | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 register | nmod:poss |
| 4 | register | register | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 change | obj |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 reader | case |
| 6 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 reader | nmod:poss |
| 7 | reader | reader | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 change | obl |
| 8 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 9 chatty | punct |
| 9 | chatty | chatty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 reader | conj |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 friend | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 friend | det |
| 12 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 chatty | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 formal | punct |
| 14 | formal | formal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 reader | parataxis |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 teacher | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 teacher | det |
| 17 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 teacher | compound |
| 18 | teacher | teacher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 formal | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 change | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | change | present | Writers | techniques's register | for techniques's reader | vn exchange-13.6.1 «NP V NP PP.co-theme»: agent=Agent register=Theme for reader=Co-Theme | |||
| 2 | register | techniques = technique | nom register «communication intransitive»: 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:054-reading-and-writing-like-a-writer.lesson:13.
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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