Coffee, tea, wine and the pub, sentence 7

In Britain and Ireland "let's put the kettle on" means "let's stop, sit down and deal with this together"; the pause matters more than the tea.

Who acts: 's, pause · What happens: let, put on, mean, stop, sit down, deal · To what, where: 's, kettle, Britain · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Coffee, tea, wine and the pub» of the adult life 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 ('s, pause), 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 Britain	case
2	Britain	Britain	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 means	obl
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 Ireland	cc
4	Ireland	Ireland	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Britain	conj
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 let	punct
6	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	13 means	ccomp
7	's	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 let	obj
8	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 let	xcomp
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 kettle	det
10	kettle	kettle	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 put	obj
11	on	on	ADP	_	8 put	compound:prt
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 let	punct
13	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	15 let	punct
15	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	13 means	ccomp
16	's	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 let	obj
17	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 let	xcomp
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 sit	punct
19	sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 stop	conj
20	down	down	ADP	_	19 sit	compound:prt
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 deal	cc
22	deal	deal	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 sit	conj
23	with	with	ADP	_	24 this	case
24	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	22 deal	obl
25	together	together	ADV	_	22 deal	advmod
26	"	"	PUNCT	_	15 let	punct
27	;	;	PUNCT	_	31 more	punct
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 pause	det
29	pause	pause	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 matters	nsubj
30	matters	matter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 means	parataxis
31	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	30 matters	advmod
32	than	than	ADP	_	34 tea	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 tea	det
34	tea	tea	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 more	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 means	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	let in a quote	infinitive		's			tree rules
2	put on in a quote	infinitive	's not said here	the kettle			vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent kettle=Goal
3	mean	present			Britain and Ireland		vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	let in a quote	infinitive		's			tree rules
5	stop in a quote	infinitive	's not said here				vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
6	sit down in a quote	infinitive	's not said here				vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	deal in a quote	infinitive	's not said here			with this; together property	vn cope-83 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent with this=Theme
8	matter	present	the pause				vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus

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:adult-life:027-coffee-tea-wine-and-the-pub.lesson:7.

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, 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.

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