Reading faces and voices, sentence 11
The tone of a voice — loud, quiet, shaky or flat — can show how someone feels.
Who acts: tone, someone · What happens: show, feel, intonate · To what, where: voice · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Reading faces and voices» of the everyday 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 (tone, someone), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 tone | det |
| 2 | tone | tone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 show | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 voice | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 voice | det |
| 5 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 tone | nmod |
| 6 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 tone | punct |
| 7 | loud | loud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 tone | amod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 quiet | punct |
| 9 | quiet | quiet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 loud | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 shaky | punct |
| 11 | shaky | shaky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 quiet | conj |
| 12 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 13 flat | cc |
| 13 | flat | flat | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 quiet | conj |
| 14 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 show | punct |
| 15 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 show | aux |
| 16 | show | show | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 17 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 19 feels | advmod |
| 18 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 19 feels | nsubj |
| 19 | feels | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 show | ccomp |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 show | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | show | can | the tone of a voice | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | feel | present | someone | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | intonate | a voice | nom tone «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:everyday:014-faces-and-voices.lesson:11.
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 ×2, R6-punct-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.
See the release 0.4.
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