Concerts, orchestras and live gigs, sentence 4
People talk about it in their own way: in Britain "grafting" is working hard, a "tout" (a "scalper" in America) resells tickets for big money, and "taking the mick" means taking advantage; in the North East "pet" means dear; Gen Z "goated" means the greatest of all time and "bussin'" means really good.
Who acts: People, grafting, tout, taking, pet, Gen Z · What happens: talk, work, resell, take, mean, goat · To what, where: own way, Britain, tickets, mick, advantage, Gen Z · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Concerts, orchestras and live gigs» 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, grafting, tout, taking), 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 | 31 resells | parataxis |
| 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 way | case |
| 6 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 way | nmod:poss |
| 7 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 way | amod |
| 8 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 talk | obl |
| 9 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 11 Britain | punct |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 Britain | case |
| 11 | Britain | Britain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 working | obl |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 grafting | punct |
| 13 | grafting | graft | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 working | nsubj |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 grafting | punct |
| 15 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 working | aux |
| 16 | working | work | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 way | acl:relcl |
| 17 | hard | hard | ADV | Degree=Pos | 16 working | advmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 resells | punct |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 tout | det |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 tout | punct |
| 21 | tout | tout | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 resells | nsubj |
| 22 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 tout | punct |
| 23 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 26 scalper | punct |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 scalper | det |
| 25 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 26 scalper | punct |
| 26 | scalper | scalper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 tout | appos |
| 27 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 26 scalper | punct |
| 28 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 America | case |
| 29 | America | America | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 scalper | nmod |
| 30 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 26 scalper | punct |
| 31 | resells | resell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 32 | tickets | ticket | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 resells | obj |
| 33 | for | for | ADP | _ | 35 money | case |
| 34 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 money | amod |
| 35 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 resells | obl |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 means | punct |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 43 means | cc |
| 38 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 39 taking | punct |
| 39 | taking | take | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 43 means | csubj |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 mick | det |
| 41 | mick | mick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 taking | obj |
| 42 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 39 taking | punct |
| 43 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 resells | conj |
| 44 | taking | take | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 43 means | ccomp |
| 45 | advantage | advantage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 taking | obj |
| 46 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 54 means | punct |
| 47 | in | in | ADP | _ | 50 East | case |
| 48 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 50 East | det |
| 49 | North | North | PROPN | Number=Sing | 50 East | compound |
| 50 | East | East | PROPN | Number=Sing | 54 means | obl |
| 51 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 52 pet | punct |
| 52 | pet | pet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 54 means | nsubj |
| 53 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 52 pet | punct |
| 54 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 resells | parataxis |
| 55 | dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 54 means | xcomp |
| 56 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 62 means | punct |
| 57 | Gen | gen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 58 Z | compound |
| 58 | Z | z | NOUN | Number=Sing | 62 means | nsubj |
| 59 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 60 goated | punct |
| 60 | goated | goat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 58 Z | acl |
| 61 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 60 goated | punct |
| 62 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 54 means | parataxis |
| 63 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 64 greatest | det |
| 64 | greatest | great | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 62 means | obj |
| 65 | of | of | ADP | _ | 67 time | case |
| 66 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 67 time | det |
| 67 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 64 greatest | obl |
| 68 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 73 means | cc |
| 69 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 70 bussin | punct |
| 70 | bussin | bussin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 73 means | nsubj |
| 71 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 70 bussin | punct |
| 72 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 70 bussin | punct |
| 73 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 62 means | conj |
| 74 | really | really | ADV | _ | 75 good | advmod |
| 75 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 73 means | xcomp |
| 76 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 talk | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | talk | present | People | people's own way | about music | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about it=Topic | |||
| 2 | work | present · progressive | grafting | people's own way not said here | Britain | hard property | vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent way=Material | ||
| 3 | resell | present | a tout | tickets | for big money | tree rules | |||
| 4 | take in a quote | gerund | the mick | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mick=Theme | |||||
| 5 | mean | present | taking | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 6 | take | gerund | advantage | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent advantage=Theme | |||||
| 7 | mean | present | pet | in the North East; dear property | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot in east=Attribute | ||||
| 8 | goat in a quote | participle | Gen Z not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 9 | mean | present | Gen Z | the greatest | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent great=Topic | ||||
| 10 | mean | present | bussin | good property | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=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:011-concerts-orchestras-and-live-gigs.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 ×6, R7-rel-agree ×2, 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.
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