Countries, peoples and languages of the world, sentence 12
English is the language most widely learned as a second language.
Who acts: English · What happens: be, learn · To what, where: language
This is a sentence of the lesson «Countries, peoples and languages of the world» of the world 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 (English), 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 | English | English | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 language | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 language | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 language | det |
| 4 | language | language | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 6 widely | advmod |
| 6 | widely | widely | ADV | _ | 7 learned | advmod |
| 7 | learned | learn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 language | acl |
| 8 | as | as | ADP | _ | 11 language | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 language | det |
| 10 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 11 language | amod |
| 11 | language | language | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 learned | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 language | 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 | English | the language | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | learn | participle | the language not said here | as a second language; widely property | vn learn-14-1 «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:world:046-countries-peoples-languages.lesson:12.
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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