Lego builds: instructions vs your own ideas, sentence 4
People say it their own way: "our kid" in Manchester means my brother or sister, "ken" and "aye" in Scotland mean you know and yes, "bare" in London means lots of, and "sus" means suspicious or odd.
Who acts: People, kid, aye, you, sus · What happens: say, mean, know · To what, where: Building, brother, lots · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Lego builds: instructions vs your own ideas» 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, kid, aye, you), 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 | _ | 10 kid | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 kid | punct |
| 9 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 kid | nmod:poss |
| 10 | kid | kid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 means | nsubj |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 kid | punct |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 Manchester | case |
| 13 | Manchester | Manchester | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 kid | nmod |
| 14 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 say | ccomp |
| 15 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 brother | nmod:poss |
| 16 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 means | obj |
| 17 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 18 sister | cc |
| 18 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 brother | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 ken | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 ken | punct |
| 21 | ken | ken | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 brother | appos |
| 22 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 ken | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 aye | cc |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 25 aye | punct |
| 25 | aye | aye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 means | conj |
| 26 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 25 aye | punct |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 Scotland | case |
| 28 | Scotland | Scotland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 aye | nmod |
| 29 | mean | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 aye | acl:relcl |
| 30 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 31 know | nsubj |
| 31 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 mean | ccomp |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 bare | cc |
| 33 | yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 40 means | discourse |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 yes | punct |
| 35 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 36 bare | punct |
| 36 | bare | bare | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 know | conj |
| 37 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 36 bare | punct |
| 38 | in | in | ADP | _ | 39 London | case |
| 39 | London | London | PROPN | Number=Sing | 36 bare | nmod |
| 40 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 36 bare | advcl |
| 41 | lots | lot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 40 means | obj |
| 42 | of | of | ADP | _ | 41 lots | nmod |
| 43 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 48 means | punct |
| 44 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 48 means | cc |
| 45 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 46 sus | punct |
| 46 | sus | sus | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 means | nsubj |
| 47 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 46 sus | punct |
| 48 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 40 means | conj |
| 49 | suspicious | suspicious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 48 means | xcomp |
| 50 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 51 odd | cc |
| 51 | odd | odd | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 49 suspicious | conj |
| 52 | . | . | 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 | Building | people's own way obl | tree rules | |||
| 2 | mean | present | our kid in Manchester | my brother or sister | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brother=Topic | ||||
| 3 | mean | present | aye in Scotland not said here | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | know | present | you | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 5 | mean | present | you not said here | lots | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lot=Topic | ||||
| 6 | mean | present | sus | suspicious 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:032-lego-builds-instructions-vs-your-own-ideas.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, 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.
See the release 0.4.
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