Kinds of sentences: statements, questions, commands, exclamations, sentence 16

A rhetorical question or exclamation like "Isn't it a lovely day!" does not want an answer; it shows a feeling.

Who acts: exclamation, rhetorical question · What happens: not be, not want, show · To what, where: lovely day, answer, feeling

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 (exclamation, rhetorical question), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 question	det
2	rhetorical	rhetorical	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 question	amod
3	question	question	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 want	nsubj
4	or	or	CCONJ	_	5 exclamation	cc
5	exclamation	exclamation	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 question	conj
6	like	like	ADP	_	13 day	mark
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 day	punct
8	Is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 day	cop
9	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 day	advmod
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 day	nsubj
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 day	det
12	lovely	lovely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 day	amod
13	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 exclamation	acl
14	!	!	PUNCT	_	13 day	punct
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 day	punct
16	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 want	aux
17	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	18 want	advmod
18	want	want	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
19	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 answer	det
20	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 want	obj
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 shows	punct
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 shows	nsubj
23	shows	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 want	parataxis
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 feeling	det
25	feeling	feeling	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 shows	obj
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 want	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed act=assert, indirect=0, polarity=none, voice=narrator

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	not is a in a quote	present	exclamation	a lovely day	tree rules
2	not want	present · do-support	a rhetorical question or exclamation	a answer	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot answer=Theme
3	show	present	exclamation	a feeling	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent feeling=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:007-kinds-of-sentences.lesson:16.

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, R8-pos-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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