Author's choices: why this word, why this way, sentence 23
Onomatopoeia means words that sound like their meaning, like crash, bang, buzz and sizzle.
Who acts: Onomatopoeia, words, animal · What happens: mean, sound · To what, where: words
This is a sentence of the lesson «Author's choices: why this word, why this way» 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 (Onomatopoeia, words, animal), 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 | Onomatopoeia | onomatopoeia | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 means | nsubj |
| 2 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 means | obj |
| 4 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 sound | nsubj |
| 5 | sound | sound | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 words | acl:relcl |
| 6 | like | like | ADP | _ | 8 meaning | case |
| 7 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 meaning | nmod:poss |
| 8 | meaning | meaning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sound | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 crash | punct |
| 10 | like | like | ADP | _ | 11 crash | case |
| 11 | crash | crash | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 meaning | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 bang | punct |
| 13 | bang | bang | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 crash | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 buzz | punct |
| 15 | buzz | buzz | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 crash | conj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 sizzle | cc |
| 17 | sizzle | sizzle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 crash | conj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 means | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | Onomatopoeia | words | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Topic | ||||
| 2 | sound | present | words | like animal's meaning like crash and bang and buzz and sizzle | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | mean | animal | like crash and bang and buzz and sizzle | nom meaning «communication transitive»: poss=agent like=obl |
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:021-authors-choices-why-this-word-why-this-way.lesson:23.
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): R7-rel-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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