Persuasive letters, newspaper articles and diaries, sentence 27

Slang: «boss» (Liverpool) means great; «gutted» (Britain) means very disappointed; «ate» (Gen Z) means did brilliantly, as in «that letter ate».

Who acts: Slang, ate, letter · What happens: mean, gut, do, eat · To what, where: great · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Persuasive letters, newspaper articles and diaries» 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, ate, letter), 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	9 means	nsubj
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	5 »	punct
3	«	«	PUNCT	_	4 boss	punct
4	boss	boss	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 means	nsubj
5	»	»	PUNCT	_	4 boss	punct
6	(	(	PUNCT	_	7 Liverpool	punct
7	Liverpool	Liverpool	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 boss	appos
8	)	)	PUNCT	_	7 Liverpool	punct
9	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 means	obj
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 gutted	punct
12	«	«	PUNCT	_	13 gutted	punct
13	gutted	gut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 means	nsubj
14	»	»	PUNCT	_	13 gutted	punct
15	(	(	PUNCT	_	16 Britain	punct
16	Britain	Britain	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 gutted	appos
17	)	)	PUNCT	_	16 Britain	punct
18	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 means	conj
19	very	very	ADV	_	20 disappointed	advmod
20	disappointed	disappointed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 means	xcomp
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 ate	punct
22	«	«	PUNCT	_	23 ate	punct
23	ate	ate	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 means	nsubj
24	»	»	PUNCT	_	23 ate	punct
25	(	(	PUNCT	_	27 Z	punct
26	Gen	gen	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 Z	compound
27	Z	z	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 ate	appos
28	)	)	PUNCT	_	27 Z	punct
29	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 means	conj
30	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 means	ccomp
31	brilliantly	brilliantly	ADV	_	30 did	advmod
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 ate	punct
33	as	as	SCONJ	_	38 ate	mark
34	in	in	ADP	_	33 as	fixed
35	«	«	PUNCT	_	38 ate	punct
36	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	37 letter	det
37	letter	letter	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 ate	nsubj
38	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 did	advcl
39	»	»	PUNCT	_	38 ate	punct
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Slang	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	mean	present	Slang	great		vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent great=Topic
2	gut in a quote	participle				vn pit-10.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	mean	present			disappointed property	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
4	mean	present	ate			vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	do	past			brilliantly property	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	eat in a quote	past	that letter			vn eat-39.1-1 «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:024-persuasive-letters-newspaper-articles-and-diaries.lesson:27.

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, R7-rel-agree ×4, 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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