Famous paintings and the stories behind them, sentence 4
People react in their own slang: in Britain "manky" means dirty or gross and "proper cracking up" means laughing a lot; "lit" means exciting, and "grim" means horrible.
Who acts: People, manky, lit, grim · What happens: react, mean, crack up, laugh, slang · To what, where: own slang, dirty, lot · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Famous paintings and the stories behind them» 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, manky, lit, grim), 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 react | nsubj |
| 2 | react | react | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 slang | case |
| 4 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 slang | nmod:poss |
| 5 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 slang | amod |
| 6 | slang | slang | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 react | obl |
| 7 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 9 Britain | punct |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 Britain | case |
| 9 | Britain | Britain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 means | obl |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 manky | punct |
| 11 | manky | manky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 means | nsubj |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 manky | punct |
| 13 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 react | parataxis |
| 14 | dirty | dirty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 means | obj |
| 15 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 16 gross | cc |
| 16 | gross | gross | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 dirty | conj |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 proper | cc |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 proper | punct |
| 19 | proper | proper | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 dirty | conj |
| 20 | cracking | crack | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 19 proper | advcl |
| 21 | up | up | ADP | _ | 20 cracking | compound:prt |
| 22 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 dirty | punct |
| 23 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 means | conj |
| 24 | laughing | laugh | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 23 means | xcomp |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 lot | det |
| 26 | lot | lot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 laughing | obl:unmarked |
| 27 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 31 means | punct |
| 28 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 29 lit | punct |
| 29 | lit | lit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 means | nsubj |
| 30 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 29 lit | punct |
| 31 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 means | parataxis |
| 32 | exciting | exciting | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 means | xcomp |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 means | punct |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 means | cc |
| 35 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 36 grim | punct |
| 36 | grim | grim | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 means | nsubj |
| 37 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 36 grim | punct |
| 38 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 means | conj |
| 39 | horrible | horrible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 means | xcomp |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 react | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | react | present | People | People's own slang | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | mean | present | manky | dirty | in Britain | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot dirty=Theme in britain=Attribute | |||
| 3 | crack up in a quote | gerund | manky not said here | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | mean | present | manky not said here | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | laugh not said to happen | gerund | manky not said here | a lot | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 6 | mean | present | lit | exciting property | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 7 | mean | present | grim | horrible property | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 8 | slang | People | nom slang «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:015-famous-paintings-and-the-stories-behind-them.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): R5-strong ×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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