How a song is made: writing, recording, producing, sentence 4

People argue in their own words: "quid" is British slang for pounds, "extra" means over the top, in Ireland "brutal" means very bad and "grand" means fine, and in the West Country "my lover" is just a friendly way to say "my dear".

Who acts: People, quid, extra, brutal, grand, lover · What happens: argue, be, mean, say, word · To what, where: own words, British slang, top, friendly way, West Country, dear · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «How a song is made: writing, recording, producing» 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, quid, extra, brutal), 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 argue	nsubj
2	argue	argue	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	6 words	case
4	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 words	nmod:poss
5	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 words	amod
6	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 argue	obl
7	:	:	PUNCT	_	13 slang	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 quid	punct
9	quid	quid	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 slang	nsubj
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 quid	punct
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 slang	cop
12	British	British	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 slang	amod
13	slang	slang	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 argue	parataxis
14	for	for	ADP	_	15 pounds	case
15	pounds	pound	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 slang	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 means	punct
17	"	"	PUNCT	_	18 extra	punct
18	extra	extra	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 means	nsubj
19	"	"	PUNCT	_	18 extra	punct
20	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 slang	parataxis
21	over	over	ADP	_	23 top	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 top	det
23	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 means	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 Ireland	punct
25	in	in	ADP	_	26 Ireland	case
26	Ireland	Ireland	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 means	obl
27	"	"	PUNCT	_	28 brutal	punct
28	brutal	brutal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 means	nsubj
29	"	"	PUNCT	_	28 brutal	punct
30	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 means	conj
31	very	very	ADV	_	32 bad	advmod
32	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 means	xcomp
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 means	cc
34	"	"	PUNCT	_	35 grand	punct
35	grand	grand	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 means	nsubj
36	"	"	PUNCT	_	35 grand	punct
37	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 means	conj
38	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 means	xcomp
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	53 way	punct
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	53 way	cc
41	in	in	ADP	_	44 Country	case
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 Country	det
43	West	West	PROPN	Number=Sing	44 Country	compound
44	Country	Country	PROPN	Number=Sing	53 way	obl
45	"	"	PUNCT	_	47 lover	punct
46	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	47 lover	nmod:poss
47	lover	lover	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 way	nsubj
48	"	"	PUNCT	_	47 lover	punct
49	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	53 way	cop
50	just	just	ADV	_	53 way	advmod
51	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	53 way	det
52	friendly	friendly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	53 way	amod
53	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 means	ccomp
54	to	to	PART	_	55 say	mark
55	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	53 way	acl
56	"	"	PUNCT	_	58 dear	punct
57	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	58 dear	nmod:poss
58	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	55 say	obj
59	"	"	PUNCT	_	58 dear	punct
60	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 argue	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	argue speech: disagree	present	People		People's own words		vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is a	present	quid	British slang		for pounds	tree rules
3	mean	present	extra		the top		vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
4	mean	present	brutal			in Ireland; bad property	vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot in ireland=Attribute
5	mean	present	grand			fine property	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
6	is a	present	my lover	a friendly way	the West Country		tree rules
7	say speech: assert	to-infinitive	brutal not said here	my dear			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent dear=Topic
8	word		People				nom word «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:007-how-a-song-is-made-writing-recording-producing.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 ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2. 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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