Just So Stories, How the Alphabet Was Made, part 1: a carp-fish's mouth, a tail, an egg and a snake, sentence 24

Talk in this lesson: «highkey» = very, openly; «nesh» (North and Midlands England) = feels the cold easily; «lekker» (South Africa) = nice, great.

Who acts: you, nesh · What happens: talk, feel · To what, where: lesson, cold

This is a sentence of the lesson «Just So Stories, How the Alphabet Was Made, part 1: a carp-fish's mouth, a tail, an egg and a snake» of the books 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 (you, nesh), 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	Talk	talk	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	in	in	ADP	_	4 lesson	case
3	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 lesson	det
4	lesson	lesson	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Talk	obl
5	:	:	PUNCT	_	6 «	punct
6	«	«	X	ExtPos=PROPN	4 lesson	appos
7	highkey	highkey	X	_	6 «	goeswith
8	»	»	PUNCT	_	7 highkey	punct
9	=	=	PUNCT	_	6 «	punct
10	very	very	ADV	_	12 openly	advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 openly	punct
12	openly	openly	ADV	_	6 «	advmod
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 feels	punct
14	«	«	PUNCT	_	15 nesh	punct
15	nesh	nesh	X	_	24 feels	nsubj
16	»	»	PUNCT	_	15 nesh	punct
17	(	(	PUNCT	_	21 England	punct
18	North	North	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 England	compound
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 Midlands	cc
20	Midlands	Midlands	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 North	conj
21	England	England	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 nesh	appos
22	)	)	PUNCT	_	21 England	punct
23	=	=	PUNCT	_	15 nesh	punct
24	feels	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Talk	parataxis
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 cold	det
26	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 feels	obj
27	easily	easily	ADV	_	24 feels	advmod
28	;	;	PUNCT	_	30 lekker	punct
29	«	«	PUNCT	_	30 lekker	punct
30	lekker	lekker	X	_	1 Talk	parataxis
31	»	»	PUNCT	_	30 lekker	punct
32	(	(	PUNCT	_	34 Africa	punct
33	South	South	PROPN	Number=Sing	34 Africa	compound
34	Africa	Africa	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 lekker	appos
35	)	)	PUNCT	_	34 Africa	punct
36	=	=	PUNCT	_	37 nice	punct
37	nice	nice	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 lekker	parataxis
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 great	punct
39	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 nice	conj
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Talk	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	talk	imperative	you not said here			this lesson			tree rules
2	feel	present	nesh	the cold				easily property	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cold=Theme

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:books:087-justso-alphabet-1-a-carp-fishs-mouth.lesson:24.

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. 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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