Our street: when a guess becomes a reputation, sentence 14

Strange hours often mean a shift worker, like a nurse, porter or baker, keeping everyone safe and fed.

Who acts: Strange hours · What happens: mean, keep · To what, where: shift worker, everyone

This is a sentence of the lesson «Our street: when a guess becomes a reputation» 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 (Strange hours), 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	Strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 hours	amod
2	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 mean	nsubj
3	often	often	ADV	_	4 mean	advmod
4	mean	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 worker	det
6	shift	shift	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 worker	compound
7	worker	worker	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 mean	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 nurse	punct
9	like	like	ADP	_	11 nurse	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 nurse	det
11	nurse	nurse	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 worker	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 porter	punct
13	porter	porter	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 nurse	conj
14	or	or	CCONJ	_	13 porter	cc
15	baker	baker	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 nurse	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 keeping	punct
17	keeping	keep	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 mean	advcl
18	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	17 keeping	obj
19	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 keeping	xcomp
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 fed	cc
21	fed	fed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 safe	conj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 mean	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present	Strange hours	a shift worker				like a nurse or porter and baker; often property	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent worker=Topic
2	keep	gerund	Strange hours not said here	everyone				safe property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everyone=Theme

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:043-our-street-when-a-guess-becomes-a-reputation.lesson:14.

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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×2. 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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