Copying vs being inspired: tracing, covers, giving credit, sentence 4
People say it their own way: "numpty" means silly person in Scotland and the north, "da" is a friendly "mate" in Chennai, "eish" is a South African "wow" or "oh no", and "chur" in New Zealand means thanks or cheers.
Who acts: People, numpty, da, eish, chur · What happens: say, mean, be · To what, where: name, silly person, Scotland, friendly mate, South, thanks · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Copying vs being inspired: tracing, covers, giving credit» 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, numpty, da, eish), 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:unmarked |
| 7 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 11 means | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 numpty | punct |
| 9 | numpty | numpty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 means | nsubj |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 numpty | punct |
| 11 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 say | ccomp |
| 12 | silly | silly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 person | amod |
| 13 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 means | obj |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 Scotland | case |
| 15 | Scotland | Scotland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 means | obl |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 north | cc |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 north | det |
| 18 | north | north | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 Scotland | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 Scotland | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 Scotland | punct |
| 21 | da | Da | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 mate | nsubj |
| 22 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 da | punct |
| 23 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 mate | cop |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 mate | det |
| 25 | friendly | friendly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 mate | amod |
| 26 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 27 mate | punct |
| 27 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 means | parataxis |
| 28 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 27 mate | punct |
| 29 | in | in | ADP | _ | 30 Chennai | case |
| 30 | Chennai | Chennai | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 means | obl |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 eish | punct |
| 32 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 33 eish | punct |
| 33 | eish | eish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 South | nsubj |
| 34 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 33 eish | punct |
| 35 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 37 South | cop |
| 36 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 37 South | det |
| 37 | South | South | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 mate | conj |
| 38 | African | African | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 South | amod |
| 39 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 40 wow | punct |
| 40 | wow | wow | INTJ | _ | 55 means | discourse |
| 41 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 40 wow | punct |
| 42 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 50 chur | cc |
| 43 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 50 chur | punct |
| 44 | oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 50 chur | discourse |
| 45 | no | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 44 oh | discourse |
| 46 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 45 no | punct |
| 47 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 oh | punct |
| 48 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 50 chur | cc |
| 49 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 50 chur | punct |
| 50 | chur | chur | NOUN | Number=Sing | 55 means | nsubj |
| 51 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 50 chur | punct |
| 52 | in | in | ADP | _ | 54 Zealand | case |
| 53 | New | New | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 54 Zealand | amod |
| 54 | Zealand | Zealand | PROPN | Number=Sing | 50 chur | nmod |
| 55 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 means | conj |
| 56 | thanks | thanks | NOUN | Number=Sing | 55 means | obj |
| 57 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 58 cheers | cc |
| 58 | cheers | cheer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 56 thanks | conj |
| 59 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 say | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | People | name | People's own way obl:unmarked | tree rules | |||
| 2 | mean | present | numpty | silly person | Scotland and the north | in Chennai | tree rules | ||
| 3 | is a in a quote | present | da | a friendly mate and a South | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | is a | present | eish | a South | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | mean | present | chur in New Zealand | thanks or cheers | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thanks=Topic |
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:035-copying-vs-being-inspired-tracing-covers-giving-credit.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 ×2, 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.
See the release 0.4.
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