--- title: Upgrading words is good until it isn't: "He ambulated to the edifice… — Editing and redrafting · tree and pragmatics description: Upgrading words is good until it isn't: "He ambulated to the edifice" for "He walked to the building" sounds like a robot swallowed a dictionary; the goal is the right word, not the longest one. Who acts: Upgrading, reader, bark, robot. A sentence of the lesson «Editing and redrafting» of the englis --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/43-editing-and-redrafting/4/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [English](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/) / [Editing and redrafting](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/43-editing-and-redrafting/) / 4 # Editing and redrafting, sentence 4 Upgrading words is good until it isn't: "He ambulated to the edifice" for "He walked to the building" sounds like a robot swallowed a dictionary; the goal is the right word, not the longest one. **Who acts:** Upgrading, reader, bark, robot, goal · **What happens:** upgrade, be, not be, ambulate, walk, sound · **To what, where:** words, edifice, building, dictionary, right word · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «Editing and redrafting» of the english 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 (Upgrading, reader, bark, robot), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:english:043-editing-and-redrafting.lesson:4 # text = Upgrading words is good until it isn't: "He ambulated to the edifice" for "He walked to the building" sounds like a robot swallowed a dictionary; the goal is the right word, not the longest one. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = english # lesson = 043-editing-and-redrafting.lesson # annotation = 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 1 Upgrading upgrade VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 4 csubj _ _ 2 words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 obj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 4 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 5 until until SCONJ IN _ 7 mark _ _ 6 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ _ 7 is be VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 advcl _ _ 8 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 7 advmod _ _ 9 : : PUNCT : _ 12 punct _ _ 10 " " PUNCT `` _ 12 punct _ _ 11 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 12 ambulated ambulate VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 13 to to ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 edifice edifice NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ _ 16 " " PUNCT `` _ 18 punct _ _ 17 for for ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 " " PUNCT `` _ 20 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=15:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 19 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 20 walked walk VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 advcl _ _ 21 to to ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 building building NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ _ 24 " " PUNCT '' _ 20 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=23:punct 25 sounds sound VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 conj _ _ 26 like like SCONJ IN _ 29 mark _ _ 27 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 robot robot NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nsubj _ _ 29 swallowed swallow VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 25 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=25:ccomp 30 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 dictionary dictionary NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obj _ _ 32 ; ; PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 goal goal NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 nsubj _ _ 35 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 38 cop _ _ 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 37 right right ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 amod _ _ 38 word word NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 parataxis _ _ 39 , , PUNCT , _ 43 punct _ _ 40 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 43 advmod _ _ 41 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 43 det _ _ 42 longest long ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 43 amod _ _ 43 one one NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 parataxis _ _ 44 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **upgrade** | gerund | | words | | | | | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Theme | | 2 | **is** | present | Upgrading | | | | | good *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **not** **be** | present | reader | | | | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **ambulate** *in a quote* | past | bark | | | the edifice | | | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to edifice=Destination | | 5 | **walk** *in a quote* | past | bark | | | the building | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to building=Destination | | 6 | **sound** | present | bark *not said here* | | | | | | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 7 | **swallow** | past | a robot | a dictionary | | | | | vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dictionary=Patient | | 8 | **is a** | present | the goal | the right word | | | | | tree rules | 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](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:english:043-editing-and-redrafting.lesson:4`. **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. **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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Editing and redrafting, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/43-editing-and-redrafting/3/) - next →: [Editing and redrafting, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/43-editing-and-redrafting/5/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/43-editing-and-redrafting/)