Prepositions and conjunctions: little words that hold sentences together, sentence 14
Starting a sentence with And or But is not banned; good writers sometimes do it for effect.
Who acts: Starting, good writers · What happens: start, not ban, do · To what, where: sentence
This is a sentence of the lesson «Prepositions and conjunctions: little words that hold sentences together» 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 (Starting, good writers), 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 | Starting | start | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 banned | csubj:pass |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 sentence | det |
| 3 | sentence | sentence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Starting | obj |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 or | case |
| 5 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 or | cc |
| 6 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 1 Starting | obl |
| 7 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 banned | cc |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 banned | aux:pass |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 banned | advmod |
| 10 | banned | ban | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 do | punct |
| 12 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 writers | amod |
| 13 | writers | writer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 do | nsubj |
| 14 | sometimes | sometimes | ADV | PronType=Ind | 15 do | advmod |
| 15 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 banned | parataxis |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 do | obj |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 effect | case |
| 18 | effect | effect | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 do | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 banned | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=assert
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | start | gerund | a sentence | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.subeventuality»: agent=Agent sentence=Eventuality with or=Subeventuality | |||||
| 2 | not ban | present · passive | Starting | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V S_ING» | |||||
| 3 | do | present | good writers | sentence | for effect; sometimes property | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality |
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:006-prepositions-and-conjunctions.lesson:14.
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): 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.
See the release 0.4.
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