Singing, choirs and talent shows, sentence 4
Scots say "cannae" for can't, "lassies" for girls, "dinnae greet" for don't cry, "braw" for great and "hen" for dear; in Northern Ireland a "header" is a wild or mad person, and in Wales "lush" means lovely.
Who acts: Scots, header, lush · What happens: say, greet, not cry, be, mean · To what, where: cannae, braw, wild person, Northern Ireland · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Singing, choirs and talent shows» 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 (Scots, header, lush), 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 | Scots | Scot | PROPN | Number=Plur | 2 say | nsubj |
| 2 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 cannae | punct |
| 4 | cannae | cannae | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 say | obj |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 cannae | punct |
| 6 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 7 ca | mark |
| 7 | ca | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 cannae | conj |
| 8 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 ca | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 lassies | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 lassies | punct |
| 11 | lassies | lassie | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 cannae | conj |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 lassies | punct |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 girls | case |
| 14 | girls | girl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 lassies | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 girls | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 greet | punct |
| 17 | dinnae | dinnae | X | Foreign=Yes | 18 greet | dep |
| 18 | greet | greet | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 say | ccomp |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 greet | punct |
| 20 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 23 cry | mark |
| 21 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 cry | aux |
| 22 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 23 cry | advmod |
| 23 | cry | cry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 greet | advcl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 braw | punct |
| 25 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 26 braw | punct |
| 26 | braw | braw | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 cry | obj |
| 27 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 26 braw | punct |
| 28 | for | for | ADP | _ | 29 great | case |
| 29 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 cry | obl |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 great | cc |
| 31 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 32 hen | punct |
| 32 | hen | hen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 braw | conj |
| 33 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 32 hen | punct |
| 34 | for | for | ADP | _ | 35 dear | case |
| 35 | dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 cry | obl |
| 36 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 57 means | punct |
| 37 | in | in | ADP | _ | 39 Ireland | case |
| 38 | Northern | Northern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 Ireland | amod |
| 39 | Ireland | Ireland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 49 person | obl |
| 40 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 42 header | det |
| 41 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 42 header | punct |
| 42 | header | header | NOUN | Number=Sing | 49 person | nsubj |
| 43 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 42 header | punct |
| 44 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 49 person | cop |
| 45 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 49 person | det |
| 46 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 49 person | amod |
| 47 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 48 mad | cc |
| 48 | mad | mad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 46 wild | conj |
| 49 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 cry | parataxis |
| 50 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 57 means | punct |
| 51 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 57 means | cc |
| 52 | in | in | ADP | _ | 53 Wales | case |
| 53 | Wales | Wales | PROPN | Number=Sing | 57 means | obl |
| 54 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 55 lush | punct |
| 55 | lush | lush | NOUN | Number=Sing | 57 means | nsubj |
| 56 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 55 lush | punct |
| 57 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 49 person | conj |
| 58 | lovely | lovely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 57 means | xcomp |
| 59 | . | . | 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 | Scots | cannae and lassies for girls | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | greet speech: greet in a quote | infinitive | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | not cry speech: express | present · do-support | braw and hen | for great; for dear | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent braw=Topic | ||||
| 4 | is a | present | a header | a wild person | Northern Ireland | tree rules | |||
| 5 | mean | present | lush | in Wales; lovely property | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot in wales=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:008-singing-choirs-and-talent-shows.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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×3, 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.
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