The best ever and shocking: adverts and headlines, sentence 4

Picture five centimetres of snow in southern England: a few trains late, a few schools shut, most people getting to work.

Who acts: you, few trains, most people · What happens: picture, shut, get, work · To what, where: five centimetres, southern England

This is a sentence of the lesson «The best ever and shocking: adverts and headlines» of the language 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 (you, few trains, most people), 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	Picture	picture	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 centimetres	nummod
3	centimetres	centimetre	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Picture	obj
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 snow	case
5	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 centimetres	nmod
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 England	case
7	southern	southern	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 England	amod
8	England	England	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 centimetres	nmod
9	:	:	PUNCT	_	12 trains	punct
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 trains	det
11	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 trains	amod
12	trains	train	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 shut	nsubj
13	late	late	ADV	Degree=Pos	18 shut	advmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 shut	punct
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 schools	det
16	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 schools	amod
17	schools	school	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 shut	nsubj
18	shut	shut	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Picture	parataxis
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 people	punct
20	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	21 people	amod
21	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Picture	parataxis
22	getting	get	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	21 people	acl
23	to	to	PART	_	24 work	mark
24	work	work	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 getting	xcomp
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Picture	punct

Pragmatics

form: command
act: request
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	picture	imperative	you not said here	five centimetres of snow	southern England		vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent centimetre=Theme
2	shut	present	a few trains			late property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	get	gerund	most people not said here				vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	work	to-infinitive	most people not said here				vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=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:language:047-the-best-ever-and-shocking-adverts-and-headlines.lesson:4.

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): R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-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.

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