Putting it together: reading and writing like a writer, sentence 3

Good writers change their style for the reader: the same news ("we won the match") is chatty for a friend and polite and clear for the head teacher.

Who acts: Good writers, we, same news · What happens: change, win, be · To what, where: style, match

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 (Good writers, we, same news), 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	Good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 writers	amod
2	writers	writer	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 change	nsubj
3	change	change	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 style	nmod:poss
5	style	style	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 change	obj
6	for	for	ADP	_	8 reader	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 reader	det
8	reader	reader	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 change	obl
9	:	:	PUNCT	_	3 change	punct
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 news	det
11	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 news	amod
12	news	news	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 chatty	nsubj
13	(	(	PUNCT	_	16 won	punct
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	16 won	punct
15	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 won	nsubj
16	won	win	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 news	acl:relcl
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 match	det
18	match	match	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 won	obj
19	"	"	PUNCT	_	16 won	punct
20	)	)	PUNCT	_	16 won	punct
21	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 chatty	cop
22	chatty	chatty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 change	parataxis
23	for	for	ADP	_	25 friend	case
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 friend	det
25	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 chatty	obl
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 polite	cc
27	polite	polite	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 chatty	conj
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 clear	cc
29	clear	clear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 polite	conj
30	for	for	ADP	_	33 teacher	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 teacher	det
32	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 teacher	compound
33	teacher	teacher	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 clear	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 change	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	change	present	Good writers	hook's style	for the reader	vn exchange-13.6.1 «NP V NP PP.co-theme»: agent=Agent style=Theme for reader=Co-Theme
2	win in a quote	past	we	the match		vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent match=Eventuality
3	is	present	the same news		for a friend; chatty property	tree rules
4	be		the same news not said here			tree rules

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:3.

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): R5-strong ×1, 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.

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