Active and passive voice, modal verbs, sentence 18
In Scotland "cannae" means can't, "dinnae" means don't, and "wee" means little.
Who acts: cannae, dinnae, wee · What happens: mean, not do · To what, where: little · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Active and passive voice, modal verbs» 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 (cannae, dinnae, wee), 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 | _ | 2 Scotland | case |
| 2 | Scotland | Scotland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 means | obl |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 cannae | punct |
| 4 | cannae | cannae | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 means | nsubj |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 cannae | punct |
| 6 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | ca | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 means | ccomp |
| 8 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 ca | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 ca | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 dinnae | punct |
| 11 | dinnae | dinnae | X | Foreign=Yes | 13 means | nsubj |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 dinnae | punct |
| 13 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 means | parataxis |
| 14 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 means | ccomp |
| 15 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 do | advmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 means | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 means | cc |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 wee | punct |
| 19 | wee | wee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 means | nsubj |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 wee | punct |
| 21 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 means | parataxis |
| 22 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 means | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 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 | cannae | in Scotland | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot in scotland=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | mean | present | dinnae | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | not do | present | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | mean | present | wee | little | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent little=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:032-active-and-passive-voice-modal-verbs.lesson:18.
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): R6-punct-agree ×1, 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.
See the release 0.4.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/32-active-and-passive-voice-modal-verbs/18/