Pronouns: I, me, you, they and who, sentence 19
The antecedent is the noun a pronoun points back to; a pronoun is ambiguous when it could point to more than one person.
Who acts: antecedent, pronoun · What happens: be, point · To what, where: noun, one person
This is a sentence of the lesson «Pronouns: I, me, you, they and who» 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 (antecedent, pronoun), 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 antecedent | det |
| 2 | antecedent | antecedent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 noun | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 noun | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 noun | det |
| 5 | noun | noun | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 pronoun | det |
| 7 | pronoun | pronoun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 points | nsubj |
| 8 | points | point | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 noun | acl:relcl |
| 9 | back | back | ADV | _ | 8 points | advmod |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 back | obl |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 ambiguous | punct |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 pronoun | det |
| 13 | pronoun | pronoun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 ambiguous | nsubj |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 ambiguous | cop |
| 15 | ambiguous | ambiguous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 points | conj |
| 16 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 19 point | advmod |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 point | nsubj |
| 18 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 point | aux |
| 19 | point | point | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 ambiguous | advcl |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 person | case |
| 21 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV | 23 one | advmod |
| 22 | than | than | ADP | _ | 21 more | fixed |
| 23 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 24 person | nummod |
| 24 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 point | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 noun | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the antecedent | the noun | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | point | present | a pronoun | the noun not said here | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent noun=Patient | ||||
| 3 | is | present | a pronoun | ambiguous property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | point | could | pronoun | one person | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to person=Recipient |
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:005-pronouns-i-me-you-they-and-who.lesson:19.
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. 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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