Modern art: "my little brother could do that", sentence 4

People react in their own slang: "you're having a laugh" means you must be joking, "dodgy" means suspicious, "it's giving space" means it feels like outer space, "pet" in the North East means dear, and "bruv" in London means mate.

Who acts: People, you, own slang, dodgy, art, pet · What happens: react, have, mean, joke, give, feel · To what, where: own slang, laugh, space, mate · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Modern art: "my little brother could do that"» 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, you, own slang, dodgy), 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	_	2 react	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 having	punct
9	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	11 having	nsubj
10	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 having	aux
11	having	have	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 means	ccomp
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 laugh	det
13	laugh	laugh	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 having	obj
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 having	punct
15	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 slang	acl
16	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	19 joking	nsubj
17	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 joking	aux
18	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	19 joking	aux
19	joking	joke	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 means	ccomp
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 means	punct
21	"	"	PUNCT	_	22 dodgy	punct
22	dodgy	dodgy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 means	nsubj
23	"	"	PUNCT	_	22 dodgy	punct
24	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 joking	parataxis
25	suspicious	suspicious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 means	xcomp
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 suspicious	punct
27	"	"	PUNCT	_	30 giving	punct
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 giving	nsubj
29	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 giving	aux
30	giving	give	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	24 means	ccomp
31	space	space	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 giving	obj
32	"	"	PUNCT	_	30 giving	punct
33	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 giving	ccomp
34	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 feels	nsubj
35	feels	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 means	ccomp
36	like	like	ADP	_	38 space	case
37	outer	outer	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 space	amod
38	space	space	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 feels	obl
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 means	punct
40	"	"	PUNCT	_	41 pet	punct
41	pet	pet	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 means	nsubj
42	"	"	PUNCT	_	41 pet	punct
43	in	in	ADP	_	46 East	case
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 East	det
45	North	North	PROPN	Number=Sing	46 East	compound
46	East	East	PROPN	Number=Sing	41 pet	nmod
47	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 means	parataxis
48	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	47 means	xcomp
49	,	,	PUNCT	_	52 bruv	punct
50	and	and	CCONJ	_	56 means	cc
51	"	"	PUNCT	_	52 bruv	punct
52	bruv	bruv	NOUN	Number=Sing	56 means	nsubj
53	"	"	PUNCT	_	52 bruv	punct
54	in	in	ADP	_	55 London	case
55	London	London	PROPN	Number=Sing	52 bruv	nmod
56	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	47 means	conj
57	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	56 means	obj
58	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 react	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed act=assert, polarity=none, voice=narrator

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	react	present	People		people's own slang		vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	have in a quote	present · progressive	you	a laugh			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent laugh=Patient
3	mean	present	people's own slang not said here				vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	joke speech: other	must · progressive	you				vn chit_chat-37.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	mean	present	dodgy			suspicious property	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	give in a quote	present · progressive	art	space			tree rules
7	mean	present	art not said here				vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
8	feel	present	art			like outer space	vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V S»: agent=Agent like space=Theme
9	mean	present	pet in the North East			dear property	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
10	mean	present	bruv in London	mate			vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mate=Topic
11	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:018-modern-art-my-little-brother-could-do-that.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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×3, R7-rel-agree ×3. 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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