Tense consistency and verb forms, sentence 17
In London slang "bare" means very or lots of, as in "bare tired".
Who acts: bare · What happens: mean, bear · To what, where: lots · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Tense consistency and verb forms» 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 (bare), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 slang | case |
| 2 | London | London | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 slang | compound |
| 3 | slang | slang | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 means | obl |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 bare | punct |
| 5 | bare | bare | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 means | nsubj |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 bare | punct |
| 7 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | very | very | ADV | _ | 9 or | advmod |
| 9 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 10 lots | cc |
| 10 | lots | lot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 means | obj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | ExtPos=ADV | 10 lots | advmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 of | punct |
| 13 | as | as | ADP | _ | 11 of | fixed |
| 14 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 16 bare | mark |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 bare | punct |
| 16 | bare | bear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 as | advcl |
| 17 | tired | tired | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 bare | xcomp |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 tired | punct |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 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 | bare | lots | in London slang | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot lot=Theme in slang=Attribute | |||
| 2 | bear in a quote | infinitive | bare not said here | tired property | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
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:031-tense-consistency-and-verb-forms.lesson:17.
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): no change. 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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