Homophones and near-homophones, sentence 35

Slang in this lesson: in London youth slang «bare» means very or lots of; «eejit» is Irish for idiot; «wee» is Scottish and Northern Irish for small.

Who acts: youth slang, eejit, wee · What happens: mean, be · To what, where: lots

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 (youth slang, eejit, wee), 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	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 Slang	obl
5	:	:	PUNCT	_	1 Slang	punct
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 London	case
7	London	London	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 slang	nmod
8	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 slang	compound
9	slang	slang	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 means	nsubj
10	«	«	PUNCT	_	11 bare	punct
11	bare	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 means	nsubj
12	»	»	PUNCT	_	11 bare	punct
13	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Slang	parataxis
14	very	very	ADV	_	16 lots	advmod
15	or	or	CCONJ	_	16 lots	cc
16	lots	lot	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 means	obj
17	of	of	ADP	_	14 very	case
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 Irish	punct
19	«	«	PUNCT	_	20 eejit	punct
20	eejit	eejit	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 Irish	nsubj
21	»	»	PUNCT	_	20 eejit	punct
22	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 Irish	cop
23	Irish	Irish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 means	conj
24	for	for	ADP	_	25 idiot	case
25	idiot	idiot	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 Irish	obl
26	;	;	PUNCT	_	31 Scottish	punct
27	«	«	PUNCT	_	28 wee	punct
28	wee	wee	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 Scottish	nsubj
29	»	»	PUNCT	_	28 wee	punct
30	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 Scottish	cop
31	Scottish	Scottish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Slang	parataxis
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 Northern	cc
33	Northern	northern	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 Scottish	conj
34	Irish	Irish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 Scottish	conj
35	for	for	ADP	_	36 small	case
36	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 Irish	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Slang	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed act=assert

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	mean	present	youth slang in London	lots		vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lot=Topic
2	is	present	eejit		for idiot; irish property	tree rules
3	is	present	wee		scottish property	tree rules
4	be		wee not said here			tree rules
5	be		wee not said here		for small	tree rules

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:35.

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): R5-strong ×3, R6-punct-agree ×2, 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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