Reading for pleasure and the reading book at home, sentence 26

Slang: «cringe» means embarrassing; «y'all» (southern US) means you all; «that book ate» (Gen Z slang) means it was excellent.

Who acts: Slang, book · What happens: cringe, mean, eat, be · To what, where: you · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Reading for pleasure and the reading book at home» 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, book), 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	:	:	PUNCT	_	4 cringe	punct
3	«	«	PUNCT	_	4 cringe	punct
4	cringe	cringe	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Slang	acl:relcl
5	»	»	PUNCT	_	4 cringe	punct
6	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 cringe	ccomp
7	embarrassing	embarrassing	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 means	xcomp
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	9 «	punct
9	«	«	PUNCT	_	6 means	punct
10	y'all	y'all	ADV	_	6 means	nsubj
11	»	»	PUNCT	_	10 y'all	punct
12	(	(	PUNCT	_	14 US	punct
13	southern	southern	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 US	amod
14	US	US	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 y'all	appos
15	)	)	PUNCT	_	14 US	punct
16	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 means	parataxis
17	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	16 means	obj
18	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	17 you	nmod:unmarked
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	30 means	punct
20	«	«	PUNCT	_	23 ate	punct
21	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	22 book	det
22	book	book	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 ate	nsubj
23	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 means	advcl
24	»	»	PUNCT	_	23 ate	punct
25	(	(	PUNCT	_	28 slang	punct
26	Gen	Gen	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 Z	compound
27	Z	z	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 slang	compound
28	slang	slang	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 ate	appos
29	)	)	PUNCT	_	28 slang	punct
30	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 cringe	parataxis
31	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 excellent	nsubj
32	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 excellent	cop
33	excellent	excellent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 means	ccomp
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Slang	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	cringe in a quote	infinitive	Slang not said here			tree rules
2	mean	present			embarrassing property	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
3	mean	present		you		vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Topic
4	eat in a quote	past	that book			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	mean	present				vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
6	is	past	book		excellent property	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:016-reading-for-pleasure-and-the-reading-book-at-home.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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, 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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