Putting it together: reading and writing like a writer, sentence 8
Tension makes the reader worry about what will happen next; a twist is a surprise that changes the meaning of the story.
Who acts: Tension, twist, surprise · What happens: make, worry, happen, be, change, mean · To what, where: surprise, meaning, story
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 (Tension, twist, surprise), 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 | Tension | tension | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 makes | nsubj |
| 2 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 reader | det |
| 4 | reader | reader | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 worry | compound |
| 5 | worry | worry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 makes | xcomp |
| 6 | about | about | SCONJ | _ | 9 happen | mark |
| 7 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 9 happen | nsubj |
| 8 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 happen | aux |
| 9 | happen | happen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 worry | acl |
| 10 | next | next | ADV | _ | 9 happen | advmod |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 surprise | punct |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 twist | det |
| 13 | twist | twist | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 surprise | nsubj |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 surprise | cop |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 surprise | det |
| 16 | surprise | surprise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 makes | parataxis |
| 17 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 changes | nsubj |
| 18 | changes | change | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 surprise | acl:relcl |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 meaning | det |
| 20 | meaning | meaning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 changes | obj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 story | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 story | det |
| 23 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 meaning | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 makes | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | present | Tension | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | worry | infinitive | Tension not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | happen | future | next property | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | is a | present | a twist | a surprise | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | change | present | a surprise | the meaning of the story | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meaning=Patient | ||||
| 6 | mean | the story | nom meaning «communication transitive»: of=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:8.
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, R7-rel-agree ×2. 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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