Putting it together: reading and writing like a writer, sentence 5

Reading like a writer means noticing the techniques authors use so that you can use them too.

Who acts: Reading, authors, you · What happens: read, mean, notice, use · To what, where: techniques · 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 (Reading, authors, you), 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	Reading	read	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 means	csubj
2	like	like	ADP	_	4 writer	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 writer	det
4	writer	writer	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Reading	obl
5	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	noticing	notice	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 means	ccomp
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 techniques	det
8	techniques	technique	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 noticing	obj
9	authors	author	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 use	nsubj
10	use	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 techniques	acl:relcl
11	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	15 use	mark
12	that	that	SCONJ	_	11 so	fixed
13	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	15 use	nsubj
14	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 use	aux
15	use	use	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 use	advcl
16	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 use	obj
17	too	too	ADV	_	15 use	advmod
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 means	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	read	gerund			like a writer	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	mean	present	Reading			vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	notice	gerund		the techniques		vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer technique=Stimulus
4	use	present	authors	the techniques not said here		vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent technique=Patient
5	use	can	you	techniques = technique		vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient

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:5.

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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