Age ratings, scary films and choosing what to watch, sentence 4

People say it their own way: "shook" means badly scared, "a lightweight" is someone who tires easily, and "daylight robbery" means far too expensive.

Who acts: People, shook, lightweight, daylight robbery · What happens: say, mean, be, tire · To what, where: ending, scared, someone · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Age ratings, scary films and choosing what to watch» 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, shook, lightweight, daylight robbery), 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 say	nsubj
2	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 say	obj
4	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 way	nmod:poss
5	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 way	amod
6	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 say	obl
7	:	:	PUNCT	_	11 means	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 shook	punct
9	shook	shook	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 means	nsubj
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 shook	punct
11	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 say	ccomp
12	badly	badly	ADV	Degree=Pos	13 scared	advmod
13	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 means	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 means	punct
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 means	punct
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 lightweight	det
17	lightweight	lightweight	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 someone	nsubj
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	17 lightweight	punct
19	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 someone	cop
20	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	2 say	ccomp
21	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 tires	nsubj
22	tires	tire	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 someone	acl:relcl
23	easily	easily	ADV	_	22 tires	advmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 means	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 means	cc
26	"	"	PUNCT	_	28 robbery	punct
27	daylight	daylight	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 robbery	compound
28	robbery	robbery	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 means	nsubj
29	"	"	PUNCT	_	28 robbery	punct
30	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 say	parataxis
31	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	33 expensive	advmod
32	too	too	ADV	_	33 expensive	advmod
33	expensive	expensive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 means	xcomp
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 say	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	People	ending	People's own way obl	tree rules
2	mean	present	shook	scared		vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent scared=Topic
3	is a	present	a lightweight	someone		tree rules
4	tire	present			easily property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
5	mean	present	daylight robbery		expensive 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:026-age-ratings-scary-films-and-choosing-what-to-watch.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): 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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