Starting a band, sentence 4
Bands talk in their own slang: in Liverpool "our kid" is your brother or sister, "la" is mate and "boss" is great; in Australia a "galah" is a fool (from a noisy pink parrot) and "yeah nah" means no; in the southern US "fixin' to" means about to.
Who acts: Bands, kid, brother, galah, nah, fixin · What happens: talk, be, mean, slang · To what, where: own slang, brother, fool, Australia, no
This is a sentence of the lesson «Starting a band» 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 (Bands, kid, brother, galah), 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 | Bands | band | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 talk | nsubj |
| 2 | talk | talk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 slang | case |
| 4 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 slang | nmod:poss |
| 5 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 slang | amod |
| 6 | slang | slang | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 talk | obl |
| 7 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 9 Liverpool | punct |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 Liverpool | case |
| 9 | Liverpool | Liverpool | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 slang | appos |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 kid | punct |
| 11 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 kid | nmod:poss |
| 12 | kid | kid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 brother | nsubj |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 kid | punct |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 brother | cop |
| 15 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 brother | nmod:poss |
| 16 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 great | nsubj |
| 17 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 18 sister | cc |
| 18 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 brother | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 la | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 la | punct |
| 21 | la | la | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 sister | appos |
| 22 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 la | punct |
| 23 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 great | cop |
| 24 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 great | nsubj |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 boss | cc |
| 26 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 27 boss | punct |
| 27 | boss | boss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 mate | conj |
| 28 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 27 boss | punct |
| 29 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 great | cop |
| 30 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 slang | acl:relcl |
| 31 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 40 fool | punct |
| 32 | in | in | ADP | _ | 33 Australia | case |
| 33 | Australia | Australia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 40 fool | obl |
| 34 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 36 galah | det |
| 35 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 36 galah | punct |
| 36 | galah | galah | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 fool | nsubj |
| 37 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 36 galah | punct |
| 38 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 40 fool | cop |
| 39 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 40 fool | det |
| 40 | fool | fool | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 talk | advcl |
| 41 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 46 parrot | punct |
| 42 | from | from | ADP | _ | 46 parrot | case |
| 43 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 46 parrot | det |
| 44 | noisy | noisy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 46 parrot | amod |
| 45 | pink | pink | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 46 parrot | amod |
| 46 | parrot | parrot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 fool | nmod |
| 47 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 46 parrot | punct |
| 48 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 53 means | cc |
| 49 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 51 nah | punct |
| 50 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 51 nah | discourse |
| 51 | nah | nah | NOUN | Number=Sing | 53 means | nsubj |
| 52 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 51 nah | punct |
| 53 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 40 fool | conj |
| 54 | no | no | NOUN | _ | 53 means | obj |
| 55 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 61 fixin | punct |
| 56 | in | in | ADP | _ | 59 US | case |
| 57 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 59 US | det |
| 58 | southern | southern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 59 US | amod |
| 59 | US | US | PROPN | Number=Sing | 65 means | obl |
| 60 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 61 fixin | punct |
| 61 | fixin | fixin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 65 means | nsubj |
| 62 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 61 fixin | punct |
| 63 | to | to | PART | _ | 65 means | mark |
| 64 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 63 to | punct |
| 65 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 53 means | conj |
| 66 | about | about | ADV | _ | 65 means | advmod |
| 67 | to | to | PART | _ | 66 about | fixed |
| 68 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 talk | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed polarity=none
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | talk | present | Bands | decisions's own slang | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | our kid | your brother or sister | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is | present | your brother or sister | decisions's own slang not said here | great property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | is a | present | a galah | a fool | Australia | from a noisy pink parrot | tree rules | ||
| 5 | mean | present | nah | no | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent no=Topic | ||||
| 6 | mean | present | fixin | in the southern US; about property | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot in us=Attribute | ||||
| 7 | slang | decisions = decision | nom slang «communication transitive»: poss=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:004-starting-a-band.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 ×3. 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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