Putting it together: reading and writing like a writer, sentence 4

Picture a boy in Glasgow saying "Ah'm gonnae write a wee story aboot ma dug" ("gonnae" means going to, "dug" means dog): dialect is fine in talk and in characters' speech, he can use Standard English for the narrator of a formal piece, and then he edits with the checklist and shares it proudly.

Who acts: you, dug, dialect, characters · What happens: picture, say, write, mean, go, be · To what, where: boy, Glasgow, story, dog, 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 (you, dug, dialect, 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	Picture	picture	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 boy	det
3	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Picture	obj
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 Glasgow	case
5	Glasgow	Glasgow	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Picture	obl
6	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Picture	advcl
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 write	punct
8	Ah	ah	INTJ	_	11 write	discourse
9	'm	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 write	aux
10	gonnae	gonnae	X	Foreign=Yes	8 Ah	dep
11	write	write	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 saying	ccomp
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 story	det
13	wee	wee	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 dug	amod
14	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 write	obj
15	aboot	aboot	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 write	obj
16	ma	ma	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 dug	compound
17	dug	dug	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 write	obj
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 write	punct
19	(	(	PUNCT	_	23 means	punct
20	"	"	PUNCT	_	21 gonnae	punct
21	gonnae	gonnae	X	Foreign=Yes	23 means	discourse
22	"	"	PUNCT	_	21 gonnae	punct
23	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 write	ccomp
24	going	go	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	23 means	ccomp
25	to	to	PART	_	30 means	mark
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 dug	punct
27	"	"	PUNCT	_	28 dug	punct
28	dug	dug	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 means	nsubj
29	"	"	PUNCT	_	28 dug	punct
30	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 going	advcl
31	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 means	obj
32	)	)	PUNCT	_	31 dog	punct
33	:	:	PUNCT	_	36 fine	punct
34	dialect	dialect	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 fine	nsubj
35	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	36 fine	cop
36	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Picture	parataxis
37	in	in	ADP	_	38 talk	case
38	talk	talk	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 fine	obl
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	47 use	cc
40	in	in	ADP	_	43 speech	case
41	characters	character	NOUN	Number=Plur	43 speech	nmod:poss
42	'	's	PART	_	41 characters	case
43	speech	speech	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 use	obl
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 use	punct
45	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	47 use	nsubj
46	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	47 use	aux
47	use	use	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	36 fine	conj
48	Standard	Standard	PROPN	Number=Sing	49 English	compound
49	English	English	PROPN	Number=Sing	47 use	obj
50	for	for	ADP	_	52 narrator	case
51	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	52 narrator	det
52	narrator	narrator	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 use	obl
53	of	of	ADP	_	56 piece	case
54	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	56 piece	det
55	formal	formal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	56 piece	amod
56	piece	piece	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 narrator	nmod
57	,	,	PUNCT	_	61 edits	punct
58	and	and	CCONJ	_	61 edits	cc
59	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	61 edits	advmod
60	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	61 edits	nsubj
61	edits	edit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	36 fine	parataxis
62	with	with	ADP	_	64 checklist	case
63	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	64 checklist	det
64	checklist	checklist	NOUN	Number=Sing	61 edits	obl
65	and	and	CCONJ	_	66 shares	cc
66	shares	share	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	61 edits	conj
67	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	66 shares	obj
68	proudly	proudly	ADV	Degree=Pos	66 shares	advmod
69	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Picture	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	picture	imperative	you not said here	a boy	Glasgow			vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent boy=Theme
2	say speech: assert	gerund	you not said here					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	write in a quote	present		a story				tree rules
4	mean	present						vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	go	gerund						vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	mean	present	dug	dog				vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dog=Topic
7	is	present	dialect		talk		fine property	tree rules
8	use	can	dug	Standard English	characters's speech		for the narrator of a formal piece	vn use-105.1 «NP V NP PP.predicate»: agent=Agent english=Theme for narrator=Eventuality
9	edit	present	dug			then	with the checklist	tree rules
10	share	present	dug not said here	story			proudly property	tree rules
11	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:4.

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 ×3, R6-punct-agree ×3. 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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