--- title: A rhetorical question or exclamation like "Isn't it a lovely day!" d… — Kinds of sentences: statements, questions, comma… · tree and pragmatics description: 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. A sentence of the lesson «Kinds of sentences: statements, questions, commands, exclamations» of the language course of Mova's primary school wit --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/7-kinds-of-sentences/16/) [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/) / [Language](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/) / [Kinds of sentences: statements, questi…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/7-kinds-of-sentences/) / 16 # 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:language:007-kinds-of-sentences.lesson:16 # text = A rhetorical question or exclamation like "Isn't it a lovely day!" does not want an answer; it shows a feeling. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = language # lesson = 007-kinds-of-sentences.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, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 rhetorical rhetorical ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 question question NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ _ 4 or or CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 5 exclamation exclamation NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 conj _ _ 6 like like ADP IN _ 13 mark _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=13:mark|HaikuPos=SCONJ:IN:_ 7 " " PUNCT `` _ 13 punct _ _ 8 Is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 cop _ _ 9 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 13 advmod _ _ 10 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 12 lovely lovely ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 acl _ _ 14 ! ! PUNCT . _ 13 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=3:punct 15 " " PUNCT '' _ 13 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=3:punct 16 does do AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 aux _ _ 17 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 18 advmod _ _ 18 want want VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 19 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 answer answer NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obj _ _ 21 ; ; PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 22 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 23 shows show VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=18:conj 24 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 feeling feeling NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obj _ _ 26 . . PUNCT . _ 18 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#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 | to whom | where | when | other | 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](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: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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Kinds of sentences: statements, questi…, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/7-kinds-of-sentences/15/) - next →: [Kinds of sentences: statements, questi…, 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/7-kinds-of-sentences/17/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/7-kinds-of-sentences/)