Drawing: lines, shapes and drawing what you really see, sentence 4
Gen Z "mid" means average, "it's giving cartoon" means it looks like a cartoon, and "lowkey" means kind of; in Britain "binning" something means throwing it in the bin.
Who acts: Z mid, mid, lowkey, something · What happens: mean, give, look, bin, throw · To what, where: average, cartoon, kind, Britain, bin · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Drawing: lines, shapes and drawing what you really see» 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 (Z mid, mid, lowkey, something), 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 | Gen | gen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Z | compound |
| 2 | Z | z | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 mid | compound |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 mid | punct |
| 4 | mid | mid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 means | nsubj |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 mid | punct |
| 6 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | average | average | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 means | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 average | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 giving | punct |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 giving | nsubj |
| 11 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 giving | aux |
| 12 | giving | give | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 means | ccomp |
| 13 | cartoon | cartoon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 giving | obj |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 giving | punct |
| 15 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 giving | ccomp |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 looks | nsubj |
| 17 | looks | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 means | ccomp |
| 18 | like | like | ADP | _ | 20 cartoon | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 cartoon | det |
| 20 | cartoon | cartoon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 looks | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 means | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 means | cc |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 24 lowkey | punct |
| 24 | lowkey | lowkey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 means | nsubj |
| 25 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 24 lowkey | punct |
| 26 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 means | parataxis |
| 27 | kind | kind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 means | obj |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 kind | fixed |
| 29 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 33 binning | punct |
| 30 | in | in | ADP | _ | 31 Britain | case |
| 31 | Britain | Britain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 binning | obl |
| 32 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 33 binning | punct |
| 33 | binning | bin | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 giving | conj |
| 34 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 33 binning | punct |
| 35 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 36 means | nsubj |
| 36 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 33 binning | parataxis |
| 37 | throwing | throw | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 36 means | ccomp |
| 38 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 throwing | obj |
| 39 | in | in | ADP | _ | 41 bin | case |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 bin | det |
| 41 | bin | bin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 throwing | obl |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 means | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed polarity=none
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | Z mid | average | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | give in a quote | present · progressive | mid | cartoon | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | mean | present | mid not said here | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | look | present | mid | like a cartoon | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | mean | present | lowkey | kind | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kind=Topic | ||||
| 6 | bin in a quote | gerund | mid not said here | Britain | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | mean | present | something | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 8 | throw | gerund | kind | the bin | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent it=Theme in bin=Destination |
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:012-drawing-lines-shapes-and-drawing-what-you-really-see.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 ×3, 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.
See the release 0.4.
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