Kinds of sentences: statements, questions, commands, exclamations, sentence 11
In speech, raising your voice at the end (intonation) can turn a statement into a question: "You're coming tomorrow?"
Who acts: raising, You · What happens: raise, turn, come · To what, where: voice, end, statement, question
This is a sentence of the lesson «Kinds of sentences: statements, questions, commands, exclamations» 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 (raising, You), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 speech | case |
| 2 | speech | speech | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 turn | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 speech | punct |
| 4 | raising | raise | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 14 turn | csubj |
| 5 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 voice | nmod:poss |
| 6 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 raising | obj |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 end | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 end | det |
| 9 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 raising | obl |
| 10 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 11 intonation | punct |
| 11 | intonation | intonation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 end | appos |
| 12 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 11 intonation | punct |
| 13 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 turn | aux |
| 14 | turn | turn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 statement | det |
| 16 | statement | statement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 turn | obj |
| 17 | into | into | ADP | _ | 19 question | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 question | det |
| 19 | question | question | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 turn | obl |
| 20 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 24 coming | punct |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 24 coming | punct |
| 22 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 24 coming | nsubj |
| 23 | 're | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 coming | aux |
| 24 | coming | come | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 19 question | acl |
| 25 | tomorrow | tomorrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 coming | obl:unmarked |
| 26 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 14 turn | punct |
| 27 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 turn | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | raise | gerund | your voice | at the end | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent voice=Theme at end=Destination | ||||
| 2 | turn | can | raising | a statement | into a question; in speech | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: agent=Agent statement=Patient in speech=Topic into question=Recipient | |||
| 3 | come in a quote | present · progressive | You | a question not said here | tomorrow | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location question=Theme |
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:007-kinds-of-sentences.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 ×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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