Putting it together: reading and writing like a writer, sentence 6
Borrowing an author's techniques is good practice; copying their actual words and calling them yours is not.
Who acts: Borrowing, copying, techniques · What happens: borrow, be, copy, call, not be, word · To what, where: techniques, good practice, actual words · 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 (Borrowing, copying, 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 | Borrowing | borrow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 practice | csubj |
| 2 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 author | det |
| 3 | author | author | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 techniques | nmod:poss |
| 4 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 3 author | case |
| 5 | techniques | technique | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Borrowing | obj |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 practice | cop |
| 7 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 practice | amod |
| 8 | practice | practice | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 8 practice | punct |
| 10 | copying | copy | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 18 is | csubj |
| 11 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 words | nmod:poss |
| 12 | actual | actual | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 words | amod |
| 13 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 copying | obj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 calling | cc |
| 15 | calling | call | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 copying | conj |
| 16 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 calling | obj |
| 17 | yours | your | PRON | Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 calling | obj |
| 18 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 practice | parataxis |
| 19 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 18 is | advmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 practice | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | borrow | gerund | a author's techniques | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent technique=Theme | |||||
| 2 | is a | present | Borrowing | good practice | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | copy | gerund | techniques's actual words | vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Theme | |||||
| 4 | call | gerund | techniques = technique | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme your=Result | |||||
| 5 | not be | present | copying | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | word | techniques = technique | nom word «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:6.
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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