Direct speech: inverted commas and new speakers, sentence 15

In Manchester "our kid" means my brother or sister and "dead boss" means really great; in Belfast "Da" is Dad and an "eejit" is an idiot.

Who acts: kid, dead boss, Da, eejit · What happens: mean, be · To what, where: brother, Dad, Belfast, idiot

This is a sentence of the lesson «Direct speech: inverted commas and new speakers» 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 (kid, dead boss, Da, eejit), 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 Manchester	case
2	Manchester	Manchester	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 means	obl
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 kid	punct
4	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 kid	nmod:poss
5	kid	kid	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 means	nsubj
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 kid	punct
7	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 brother	nmod:poss
9	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 means	obj
10	or	or	CCONJ	_	11 sister	cc
11	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 brother	conj
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 means	cc
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	15 boss	punct
14	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 boss	amod
15	boss	boss	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 means	nsubj
16	"	"	PUNCT	_	15 boss	punct
17	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 means	conj
18	really	really	ADV	_	19 great	advmod
19	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 means	xcomp
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	7 means	punct
21	in	in	ADP	_	22 Belfast	case
22	Belfast	Belfast	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 Dad	obl
23	"	"	PUNCT	_	24 Da	punct
24	Da	Da	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 Dad	nsubj
25	"	"	PUNCT	_	24 Da	punct
26	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 Dad	cop
27	Dad	Dad	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 means	conj
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 idiot	cc
29	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 eejit	det
30	"	"	PUNCT	_	31 eejit	punct
31	eejit	eejit	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 idiot	nsubj
32	"	"	PUNCT	_	31 eejit	punct
33	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	35 idiot	cop
34	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 idiot	det
35	idiot	idiot	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 Dad	conj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 means	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	mean	present	our kid	my brother or sister		in Manchester	vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot brother=Theme in manchester=Attribute
2	mean	present	dead boss			great property	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
3	is a	present	Da	Dad and a idiot	Belfast		tree rules
4	is a	present	a eejit	a idiot			tree rules

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:035-direct-speech-inverted-commas-and-new-speakers.lesson:15.

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): R3-conj-first ×1, R6-punct-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.

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