Being bad at something and keeping going, sentence 4
People say it their own way: "nesh" in Yorkshire means soft or easily hurt, "peng" in London means brilliant, "butt" in Wales means mate, "lush" means lovely, and "the GOAT" means the greatest of all time.
Who acts: People, nesh, peng, butt, lush, GOAT · What happens: say, mean, hurt · To what, where: spin, soft, Wales, greatest · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Being bad at something and keeping going» 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, nesh, peng, butt), 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 nesh | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 nesh | punct |
| 9 | nesh | nesh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 means | nsubj |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 nesh | punct |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 Yorkshire | case |
| 12 | Yorkshire | Yorkshire | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 nesh | nmod |
| 13 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 say | ccomp |
| 14 | soft | soft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 means | obj |
| 15 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 17 hurt | cc |
| 16 | easily | easily | ADV | _ | 17 hurt | advmod |
| 17 | hurt | hurt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 soft | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 means | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 peng | punct |
| 20 | peng | peng | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 means | nsubj |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 peng | punct |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 London | case |
| 23 | London | London | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 peng | nmod |
| 24 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 means | parataxis |
| 25 | brilliant | brilliant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 means | xcomp |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 butt | punct |
| 27 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 28 butt | punct |
| 28 | butt | butt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 means | nsubj |
| 29 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 28 butt | punct |
| 30 | in | in | ADP | _ | 33 mate | case |
| 31 | Wales | Wales | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 means | obl |
| 32 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 means | parataxis |
| 33 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 means | obj |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 mate | punct |
| 35 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 36 lush | punct |
| 36 | lush | lush | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 means | nsubj |
| 37 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 36 lush | punct |
| 38 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 means | parataxis |
| 39 | lovely | lovely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 means | xcomp |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 46 means | punct |
| 41 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 46 means | cc |
| 42 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 44 GOAT | punct |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 GOAT | det |
| 44 | GOAT | goat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 means | nsubj |
| 45 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 44 GOAT | punct |
| 46 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 38 means | conj |
| 47 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 48 greatest | det |
| 48 | greatest | great | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 46 means | obj |
| 49 | of | of | ADP | _ | 51 time | case |
| 50 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 51 time | det |
| 51 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 greatest | nmod |
| 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 | spin | people's own way obl | tree rules | |||
| 2 | mean | present | nesh in Yorkshire | soft | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent soft=Topic | ||||
| 3 | hurt | participle | nesh in Yorkshire not said here | easily property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | mean | present | peng in London | brilliant property | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | mean | present | butt | Wales | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mate=Topic | ||||
| 6 | mean | present | lush | lovely property | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 7 | mean | present | the GOAT | the greatest of all time | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent great=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:037-being-bad-at-something-and-keeping-going.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 ×2, 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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