Reading non-fiction: recount, instructions, report, sentence 33
Slang: «mardy» (North and Midlands of England) means grumpy or sulky; «heaps» (Australia) can mean very or a lot.
Who acts: Slang, heaps · What happens: mardy, mean · To what, where: North Midlands · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Reading non-fiction: recount, instructions, report» 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, heaps), 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 | 13 means | nsubj |
| 2 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 4 mardy | punct |
| 3 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 4 mardy | punct |
| 4 | mardy | mardy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 means | nsubj |
| 5 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 4 mardy | punct |
| 6 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 7 North | punct |
| 7 | North | North | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Midlands | compound |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 Midlands | cc |
| 9 | Midlands | Midlands | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 mardy | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 England | case |
| 11 | England | England | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Midlands | nmod |
| 12 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 9 Midlands | punct |
| 13 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | grumpy | grumpy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 means | conj |
| 15 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 16 sulky | cc |
| 16 | sulky | sulky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 grumpy | conj |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 heaps | punct |
| 18 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 19 heaps | punct |
| 19 | heaps | heap | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 mean | nsubj |
| 20 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 19 heaps | punct |
| 21 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 22 Australia | punct |
| 22 | Australia | Australia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 heaps | appos |
| 23 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 22 Australia | punct |
| 24 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 mean | aux |
| 25 | mean | mean | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 means | parataxis |
| 26 | very | very | ADV | _ | 25 mean | advmod |
| 27 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 29 lot | cc |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 lot | det |
| 29 | lot | lot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 very | conj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Slang | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mardy in a quote | infinitive | North Midlands of England | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | mean | present | Slang | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | mean | can | heaps | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: 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:023-reading-non-fiction-recount-instructions-report.lesson:33.
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 ×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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