Music lessons and the recorder, sentence 4

People talk about it in their own words: in Ireland a "yoke" is just a thing and an "eejit" a fool, in Scotland "greetin'" is crying, in Wales "tamping" is furious, and in Britain "minging" means disgusting.

Who acts: People, yoke, greetin, tamping · What happens: talk, be, cry, ming, mean, word · To what, where: own words, thing, Ireland, Scotland · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Music lessons and the recorder» of the arts 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 (People, yoke, greetin, tamping), 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	People	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 talk	nsubj
2	talk	talk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	about	about	ADP	_	4 it	case
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 talk	obl
5	in	in	ADP	_	8 words	case
6	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 words	nmod:poss
7	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 words	amod
8	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 talk	obl
9	:	:	PUNCT	_	19 thing	punct
10	in	in	ADP	_	11 Ireland	case
11	Ireland	Ireland	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 thing	obl
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 yoke	det
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 yoke	punct
14	yoke	yoke	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 thing	nsubj
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 yoke	punct
16	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 thing	cop
17	just	just	ADV	_	19 thing	advmod
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 thing	det
19	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 talk	parataxis
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 eejit	cc
21	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 eejit	det
22	"	"	PUNCT	_	23 eejit	punct
23	eejit	eejit	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 thing	conj
24	"	"	PUNCT	_	23 eejit	punct
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 fool	det
26	fool	fool	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 eejit	appos
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 Scotland	punct
28	in	in	ADP	_	29 Scotland	case
29	Scotland	Scotland	PROPN	Number=Sing	35 crying	obl
30	"	"	PUNCT	_	31 greetin	punct
31	greetin	greetin	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 crying	nsubj
32	'	'	PUNCT	_	31 greetin	punct
33	"	"	PUNCT	_	31 greetin	punct
34	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	35 crying	aux
35	crying	cry	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	19 thing	acl:relcl
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 Wales	punct
37	in	in	ADP	_	38 Wales	case
38	Wales	Wales	PROPN	Number=Sing	35 crying	obl
39	"	"	PUNCT	_	40 tamping	punct
40	tamping	tamping	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 furious	nsubj
41	"	"	PUNCT	_	40 tamping	punct
42	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	43 furious	cop
43	furious	furious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 Wales	parataxis
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	51 means	punct
45	and	and	CCONJ	_	51 means	cc
46	in	in	ADP	_	47 Britain	case
47	Britain	Britain	PROPN	Number=Sing	51 means	obl
48	"	"	PUNCT	_	49 minging	punct
49	minging	ming	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	51 means	nsubj
50	"	"	PUNCT	_	49 minging	punct
51	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 talk	parataxis
52	disgusting	disgusting	ADJ	Degree=Pos	51 means	xcomp
53	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 talk	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	talk	present	People		People's own words	about finger	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about it=Topic
2	is a	present	a yoke	a thing and a eejit	Ireland		tree rules
3	cry speech: express	present · progressive	greetin	a thing and a eejit not said here	Scotland	in Wales	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Topic
4	is	present	tamping			furious property	tree rules
5	ming in a quote	gerund					tree rules
6	mean	present				in Britain; disgusting property	vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot in britain=Attribute
7	word		People				nom word «communication transitive»: poss=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:arts:001-music-lessons-and-the-recorder.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 ×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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