Buildings and architecture, sentence 4
People say it their own way: "mardy" in the north of England means sulky, "summat" means something, "yaar" in India means mate, "aye" in Scotland means yes, and "wrecked" in Ireland means very tired.
Who acts: People, mardy, summat, yaar · What happens: say, mean, wreck · To what, where: Taste, sulky, something, India · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Buildings and architecture» 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, mardy, summat, yaar), 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 | _ | 9 mardy | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 mardy | punct |
| 9 | mardy | mardy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 means | nsubj |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 mardy | punct |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 north | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 north | det |
| 13 | north | north | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 mardy | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 England | case |
| 15 | England | England | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 north | nmod |
| 16 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 say | ccomp |
| 17 | sulky | sulky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 means | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 sulky | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 summat | punct |
| 20 | summat | summat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 means | nsubj |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 summat | punct |
| 22 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 means | ccomp |
| 23 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 22 means | obj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 say | punct |
| 25 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 26 yaar | punct |
| 26 | yaar | yaar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 means | nsubj |
| 27 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 26 yaar | punct |
| 28 | in | in | ADP | _ | 31 mate | case |
| 29 | India | India | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 means | obl |
| 30 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 yaar | acl:relcl |
| 31 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 means | obj |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 aye | punct |
| 33 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 34 aye | punct |
| 34 | aye | aye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 yaar | appos |
| 35 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 34 aye | punct |
| 36 | in | in | ADP | _ | 37 Scotland | case |
| 37 | Scotland | Scotland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 yaar | nmod |
| 38 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 say | parataxis |
| 39 | yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 38 means | discourse |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 wrecked | punct |
| 41 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 43 wrecked | cc |
| 42 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 43 wrecked | punct |
| 43 | wrecked | wreck | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 47 means | csubj |
| 44 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 43 wrecked | punct |
| 45 | in | in | ADP | _ | 46 Ireland | case |
| 46 | Ireland | Ireland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 47 means | obl |
| 47 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 38 means | conj |
| 48 | very | very | ADV | _ | 49 tired | advmod |
| 49 | tired | tired | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 47 means | xcomp |
| 50 | . | . | 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 | Taste | People's own way obl | tree rules | |||
| 2 | mean | present | mardy | sulky | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | mean | present | summat | something | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Topic | ||||
| 4 | mean | present | yaar in Scotland not said here | India | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mate=Topic | ||||
| 5 | mean | present | yaar in Scotland | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | wreck in a quote | participle | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 7 | mean | present | yaar in Scotland not said here | in Ireland; tired 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:034-buildings-and-architecture.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 ×3, R6-punct-agree ×2, 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.
See the release 0.4.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/34-buildings-and-architecture/4/