Putting it together: reading and writing like a writer, sentence 14
Dialect is fine in talk and in characters' speech; formal writing usually uses Standard English.
Who acts: Dialect, formal writing, characters · What happens: be, use, speak · To what, where: talk, Standard English · 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 (Dialect, formal writing, characters), 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 | Dialect | dialect | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 fine | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 fine | cop |
| 3 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 talk | case |
| 5 | talk | talk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 fine | obl |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 speech | cc |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 speech | case |
| 8 | characters | character | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 speech | nmod:poss |
| 9 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 8 characters | case |
| 10 | speech | speech | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 talk | conj |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 3 fine | punct |
| 12 | formal | formal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 writing | amod |
| 13 | writing | writing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 uses | nsubj |
| 14 | usually | usually | ADV | _ | 15 uses | advmod |
| 15 | uses | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 fine | parataxis |
| 16 | Standard | Standard | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 English | compound |
| 17 | English | English | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 uses | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 fine | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Dialect | talk and characters's speech | fine property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | use | present | formal writing | Standard English | usually property | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent english=Patient | |||
| 3 | speak | characters | nom speech «communication 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:054-reading-and-writing-like-a-writer.lesson:14.
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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