Snooping on phones, diaries and letters, sentence 23
Reading the end of a story first often spoils the fun of the waiting.
Who acts: Reading · What happens: read, spoil · To what, where: end, fun
This is a sentence of the lesson «Snooping on phones, diaries and letters» 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 (Reading), 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 | 9 spoils | csubj |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 end | det |
| 3 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Reading | obj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 story | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 story | det |
| 6 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 end | nmod |
| 7 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 9 spoils | advmod |
| 8 | often | often | ADV | _ | 9 spoils | advmod |
| 9 | spoils | spoil | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 fun | det |
| 11 | fun | fun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 spoils | obj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 waiting | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 waiting | det |
| 14 | waiting | waiting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 fun | nmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 spoils | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | read | gerund | the end of a story | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent end=Topic | |||||
| 2 | spoil | present | Reading | the fun of the waiting | first, often property | tree rules |
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:357-snooping-on-phones-bags-calls-and-codes.lesson:23.
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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