Commas: lists, clauses and clarity, sentence 17

Liverpool and Manchester speakers say "our kid" for a brother or sister and "me mam" for my mum; in formal writing these become "my brother" and "my mum".

Who acts: Liverpool speakers, these · What happens: say, become · To what, where: kid, brother, formal writing · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Commas: lists, clauses and clarity» 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 (Liverpool speakers, these), 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	Liverpool	Liverpool	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 speakers	compound
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 Manchester	cc
3	Manchester	Manchester	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Liverpool	conj
4	speakers	speaker	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 say	nsubj
5	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 kid	punct
7	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 kid	nmod:poss
8	kid	kid	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 say	obj
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 kid	punct
10	for	for	ADP	_	12 brother	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 brother	det
12	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 kid	nmod
13	or	or	CCONJ	_	14 sister	cc
14	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 brother	conj
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 me	cc
16	"	"	PUNCT	_	17 me	punct
17	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 sister	conj
18	mam	mam	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 kid	conj
19	"	"	PUNCT	_	18 mam	punct
20	for	for	ADP	_	22 mum	case
21	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 mum	nmod:poss
22	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 mam	nmod
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 become	punct
24	in	in	ADP	_	26 writing	case
25	formal	formal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 writing	amod
26	writing	writing	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 become	obl
27	these	this	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	28 become	nsubj
28	become	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 say	parataxis
29	"	"	PUNCT	_	31 brother	punct
30	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 brother	nmod:poss
31	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 become	xcomp
32	"	"	PUNCT	_	31 brother	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 mum	cc
34	"	"	PUNCT	_	36 mum	punct
35	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 mum	nmod:poss
36	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 brother	conj
37	"	"	PUNCT	_	36 mum	punct
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 say	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Liverpool speakers	our kid and mam for my mum				for a brother or sister	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent kid=Topic
2	become	present	these	my brother and my mum				in formal writing result	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in writing=Result

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:033-commas-lists-clauses-and-clarity.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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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