Practising when you would rather not, sentence 5

Different places say it their own way: Gen Z "it's giving prison" means it feels like prison, Singaporeans say "lah" for emphasis and "can or not" for "is it possible", Australians say "arvo" for afternoon, and in Ireland "wojus" means terrible.

Who acts: Different places, Z, Gen Z, Singaporeans, Australians, wojus · What happens: say, give, mean, feel, be · To what, where: practice, prison, lah, arvo · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Practising when you would rather not» 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 (Different places, Z, Gen Z, Singaporeans), 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	Different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 places	amod
2	places	place	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 say	nsubj
3	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 say	obj
5	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 way	nmod:poss
6	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 way	amod
7	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 say	obl
8	:	:	PUNCT	_	10 Z	punct
9	Gen	gen	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 Z	compound
10	Z	z	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 means	nsubj
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 giving	punct
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 giving	nsubj
13	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 giving	aux
14	giving	give	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 way	acl:relcl
15	prison	prison	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 giving	obj
16	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 giving	punct
17	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 say	parataxis
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 feels	nsubj
19	feels	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 means	ccomp
20	like	like	ADP	_	21 prison	case
21	prison	prison	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 feels	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 say	punct
23	Singaporeans	singaporean	PROPN	Number=Plur	24 say	nsubj
24	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	57 means	advcl
25	"	"	PUNCT	_	26 lah	punct
26	lah	lah	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 say	obj
27	"	"	PUNCT	_	26 lah	punct
28	for	for	ADP	_	29 emphasis	case
29	emphasis	emphasis	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 say	obl
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 possible	cc
31	"	"	PUNCT	_	32 can	punct
32	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	40 possible	aux
33	or	or	CCONJ	_	40 possible	cc
34	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	32 can	conj
35	"	"	PUNCT	_	40 possible	punct
36	for	for	SCONJ	_	40 possible	mark
37	"	"	PUNCT	_	40 possible	punct
38	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	40 possible	cop
39	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 possible	nsubj
40	possible	possible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 emphasis	conj
41	"	"	PUNCT	_	40 possible	punct
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 say	punct
43	Australians	australian	PROPN	Number=Plur	44 say	nsubj
44	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 say	parataxis
45	"	"	PUNCT	_	46 arvo	punct
46	arvo	arvo	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 say	obj
47	"	"	PUNCT	_	46 arvo	punct
48	for	for	ADP	_	49 afternoon	case
49	afternoon	afternoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 say	obl
50	,	,	PUNCT	_	57 means	punct
51	and	and	CCONJ	_	55 wojus	cc
52	in	in	ADP	_	53 Ireland	case
53	Ireland	Ireland	PROPN	Number=Sing	57 means	obl
54	"	"	PUNCT	_	55 wojus	punct
55	wojus	wojus	NOUN	Number=Sing	57 means	nsubj
56	"	"	PUNCT	_	55 wojus	punct
57	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 means	conj
58	terrible	terrible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	57 means	xcomp
59	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 say	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Different places	practice		places's own way obl	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent it=Topic
2	give in a quote	present · progressive	Z	prison			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prison=Theme
3	mean	present	Gen Z				vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	feel	present	Z			like prison	vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V S»: agent=Agent like prison=Theme
5	say speech: assert	present	Singaporeans	lah		for emphasis	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent lah=Topic
6	is in a quote	can	Z			possible property	tree rules
7	say speech: assert	present	Australians	arvo	afternoon		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent arvo=Topic
8	mean	present	wojus			in Ireland; terrible property	vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot in ireland=Attribute

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:003-practising-when-you-would-rather-not.lesson:5.

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 ×4, R6-punct-agree ×8, R7-rel-agree ×1, 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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