How to learn spellings that stick, sentence 26

Slang in this lesson: «boomer» is slang for older people (properly, people born in the years after the Second World War); «toque» is Canadian for a woolly hat; «eh» is a Canadian way to end a sentence; «my lover» is a friendly West Country greeting, and «proper job» there means well done.

Who acts: boomer, older people, toque, eh, lover · What happens: be, bear, end, mean, do · To what, where: slang, people, Canadian way, sentence, friendly Country greeting

This is a sentence of the lesson «How to learn spellings that stick» 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 (boomer, older people, toque, eh), 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	_	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	_	10 slang	punct
6	«	«	PUNCT	_	7 boomer	punct
7	boomer	boomer	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 slang	nsubj
8	»	»	PUNCT	_	7 boomer	punct
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 slang	cop
10	slang	slang	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Slang	parataxis
11	for	for	ADP	_	13 people	case
12	older	old	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	13 people	amod
13	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 slang	nmod
14	(	(	PUNCT	_	18 born	punct
15	properly	properly	ADV	_	17 people	advmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 properly	punct
17	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 born	nsubj:pass
18	born	bear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 people	acl
19	in	in	ADP	_	21 years	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 years	det
21	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 born	obl
22	after	after	ADP	_	26 War	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 War	det
24	Second	Second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	26 War	amod
25	World	World	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 War	compound
26	War	War	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 years	nmod
27	)	)	PUNCT	_	18 born	punct
28	;	;	PUNCT	_	33 Canadian	punct
29	«	«	PUNCT	_	30 toque	punct
30	toque	toque	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 Canadian	nsubj
31	»	»	PUNCT	_	30 toque	punct
32	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 Canadian	cop
33	Canadian	Canadian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 slang	parataxis
34	for	for	ADP	_	37 hat	case
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 hat	det
36	woolly	woolly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 hat	amod
37	hat	hat	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 Canadian	obl
38	;	;	PUNCT	_	45 way	punct
39	«	«	PUNCT	_	40 eh	punct
40	eh	eh	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 way	nsubj
41	»	»	PUNCT	_	40 eh	punct
42	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	45 way	cop
43	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	45 way	det
44	Canadian	Canadian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 way	amod
45	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Slang	obl
46	to	to	PART	_	47 end	mark
47	end	end	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	45 way	acl
48	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	49 sentence	det
49	sentence	sentence	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 end	obj
50	;	;	PUNCT	_	60 greeting	punct
51	«	«	PUNCT	_	53 lover	punct
52	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	53 lover	nmod:poss
53	lover	lover	NOUN	Number=Sing	60 greeting	nsubj
54	»	»	PUNCT	_	53 lover	punct
55	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	60 greeting	cop
56	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	60 greeting	det
57	friendly	friendly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	60 greeting	amod
58	West	West	PROPN	Number=Sing	59 Country	compound
59	Country	Country	PROPN	Number=Sing	60 greeting	compound
60	greeting	greeting	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Slang	parataxis
61	,	,	PUNCT	_	65 job	punct
62	and	and	CCONJ	_	65 job	cc
63	«	«	PUNCT	_	65 job	punct
64	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	65 job	amod
65	job	job	NOUN	Number=Sing	60 greeting	conj
66	»	»	PUNCT	_	65 job	punct
67	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	68 means	expl
68	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Slang	advcl:relcl
69	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	70 done	advmod
70	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	68 means	xcomp
71	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Slang	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	boomer	slang			for older people	tree rules
2	bear	participle · passive	older people not said here	people		year		vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
3	is	present	toque				for a woolly hat; canadian property	tree rules
4	is a	present	eh	a Canadian way				tree rules
5	end	to-infinitive		a sentence				vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality sentence=Eventuality
6	is a	present	my lover	a friendly Country greeting and proper job				tree rules
7	mean	present			there			vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
8	do not said to happen	participle					well property	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=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:english:015-how-to-learn-spellings-that-stick.lesson:26.

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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2, 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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