Homophones and near-homophones, sentence 17
Slang can give an old word a new meaning.
Who acts: Slang · What happens: give · To what, where: new meaning, old word
This is a sentence of the lesson «Homophones and near-homophones» of the english 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 (Slang), 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 | Slang | slang | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 give | nsubj |
| 2 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 give | aux |
| 3 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 word | det |
| 5 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 word | amod |
| 6 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 give | iobj |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 meaning | det |
| 8 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 meaning | amod |
| 9 | meaning | meaning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 give | obj |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 give | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=assert
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | can | Slang | a new meaning | a old word | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent word=Recipient meaning=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:english:011-homophones-and-near-homophones.lesson:17.
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): no change. 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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