Crafts: paper, clay, sewing, knitting, slime, sentence 4
People say it their own way: "well mint" is northern English for really great, "sweet as" in Australia means fine, "wee" in Scotland means small, and "deadly" in Ireland means brilliant.
Who acts: People, own way, wee · What happens: say, be, mean · To what, where: skin, northern English · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Crafts: paper, clay, sewing, knitting, slime» 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, own way, wee), 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 | 14 English | nsubj |
| 7 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 10 mint | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 mint | punct |
| 9 | well | well | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 mint | amod |
| 10 | mint | mint | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 way | appos |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 mint | punct |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 English | cop |
| 13 | northern | northern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 English | amod |
| 14 | English | English | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 say | ccomp |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 great | case |
| 16 | really | really | ADV | _ | 17 great | advmod |
| 17 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 English | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 English | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 sweet | punct |
| 20 | sweet | sweet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 English | parataxis |
| 21 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 25 means | mark |
| 22 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 25 means | punct |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 Australia | case |
| 24 | Australia | Australia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 means | obl |
| 25 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 sweet | advcl |
| 26 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 means | conj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 wee | punct |
| 28 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 29 wee | punct |
| 29 | wee | wee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 means | nsubj |
| 30 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 29 wee | punct |
| 31 | in | in | ADP | _ | 32 Scotland | case |
| 32 | Scotland | Scotland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 means | obl |
| 33 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 fine | parataxis |
| 34 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 means | ccomp |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 deadly | punct |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 deadly | cc |
| 37 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 38 deadly | punct |
| 38 | deadly | deadly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 small | parataxis |
| 39 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 38 deadly | punct |
| 40 | in | in | ADP | _ | 41 Ireland | case |
| 41 | Ireland | Ireland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 42 means | obl |
| 42 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 33 means | conj |
| 43 | brilliant | brilliant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 42 means | xcomp |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 say | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | People | skin | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent it=Topic | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | People's own way | northern English | for great | tree rules | |||
| 3 | mean | present | People's own way not said here | in Australia | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot in australia=Attribute | ||||
| 4 | mean | present | wee | in Scotland | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot in scotland=Attribute | ||||
| 5 | mean | present | wee not said here | in Ireland; brilliant 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:031-crafts-paper-clay-sewing-knitting-slime.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 ×1, 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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