Word classes: the jobs words do, sentence 16
Freya in Melbourne asks, «Arvo is a noun, yeah nah?» (arvo is Australian for afternoon, and yeah nah means no or not really).
Who acts: Freya, Arvo · What happens: ask, be, mean · To what, where: noun, no · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Word classes: the jobs words do» 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 (Freya, Arvo), 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 | Freya | Freya | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 asks | nsubj |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 3 Melbourne | case |
| 3 | Melbourne | Melbourne | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Freya | nmod |
| 4 | asks | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 noun | punct |
| 6 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 10 noun | punct |
| 7 | Arvo | arvo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 noun | nsubj |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 noun | cop |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 noun | det |
| 10 | noun | noun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 asks | ccomp |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 noun | punct |
| 12 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 asks | discourse |
| 13 | nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 4 asks | discourse |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 asks | punct |
| 15 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 4 asks | punct |
| 16 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 19 Australian | punct |
| 17 | arvo | arvo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 Australian | nsubj |
| 18 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 Australian | cop |
| 19 | Australian | Australian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 asks | parataxis |
| 20 | for | for | ADP | _ | 21 afternoon | case |
| 21 | afternoon | afternoon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 Australian | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 means | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 means | cc |
| 24 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 26 means | discourse |
| 25 | nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 26 means | discourse |
| 26 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 asks | parataxis |
| 27 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 26 means | obj |
| 28 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 30 really | cc |
| 29 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 30 really | advmod |
| 30 | really | really | ADV | _ | 27 no | conj |
| 31 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 27 no | punct |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 asks | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | present | Freya in Melbourne | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | Arvo | a noun | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is | present | arvo | afternoon | australian property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | mean | present | no | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent no=Topic |
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:027-word-classes-the-jobs-words-do.lesson:16.
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): 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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