Brackets, dashes, colons, semicolons and hyphens, sentence 4

A hyphen is a short join inside words, and it can change the story: a "man-eating shark" eats people, but a "man eating shark" is a man having shark for dinner, as a Cardiff gran might put it, "isn't it, cariad?" ("cariad" is Welsh for love or darling).

Who acts: hyphen, eating shark, man, Cardiff gran, cariad · What happens: be, change, eat, have, put · To what, where: short join, words, story, people, shark

This is a sentence of the lesson «Brackets, dashes, colons, semicolons and hyphens» 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 (hyphen, eating shark, man, Cardiff gran), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 hyphen	det
2	hyphen	hyphen	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 join	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 join	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 join	det
5	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 join	amod
6	join	join	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	inside	inside	ADP	_	8 words	case
8	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 join	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 change	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 change	cc
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 change	nsubj
12	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 change	aux
13	change	change	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 join	parataxis
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 story	det
15	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 change	obj
16	:	:	PUNCT	_	24 eats	punct
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 shark	det
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	22 shark	punct
19	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 eating	compound
20	-	-	PUNCT	_	19 man	punct
21	eating	eat	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	22 shark	amod
22	shark	shark	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 eats	nsubj
23	"	"	PUNCT	_	22 shark	punct
24	eats	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 change	parataxis
25	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 eats	obj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 having	punct
27	but	but	CCONJ	_	37 having	cc
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 shark	det
29	"	"	PUNCT	_	31 eating	punct
30	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 eating	nsubj
31	eating	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	32 shark	amod
32	shark	shark	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 having	nsubj
33	"	"	PUNCT	_	32 shark	punct
34	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	37 having	aux
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 man	det
36	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 having	nsubj
37	having	have	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	24 eats	parataxis
38	shark	shark	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 having	obj
39	for	for	ADP	_	40 dinner	case
40	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 having	obl
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 put	punct
42	as	as	SCONJ	_	47 put	mark
43	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	45 gran	det
44	Cardiff	Cardiff	PROPN	Number=Sing	45 gran	compound
45	gran	gran	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 put	nsubj
46	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	47 put	aux
47	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	37 having	parataxis
48	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	47 put	obj
49	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 put	punct
50	"	"	PUNCT	_	51 is	punct
51	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	47 put	parataxis
52	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	51 is	advmod
53	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	51 is	nsubj
54	,	,	PUNCT	_	55 cariad	punct
55	cariad	cariad	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 put	vocative
56	?	?	PUNCT	_	55 cariad	punct
57	"	"	PUNCT	_	55 cariad	punct
58	(	(	PUNCT	_	63 Welsh	punct
59	"	"	PUNCT	_	60 cariad	punct
60	cariad	cariad	NOUN	Number=Sing	63 Welsh	nsubj
61	"	"	PUNCT	_	60 cariad	punct
62	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	63 Welsh	cop
63	Welsh	welsh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 change	parataxis
64	for	for	ADP	_	65 love	case
65	love	love	NOUN	Number=Sing	63 Welsh	obl
66	or	or	CCONJ	_	67 darling	cc
67	darling	darling	NOUN	Number=Sing	65 love	conj
68	)	)	PUNCT	_	63 Welsh	punct
69	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 join	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	present	a hyphen	a short join	words		tree rules
2	change	can	hyphen	the story			vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent story=Patient
3	eat in a quote	gerund					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	eat	present	a eating shark	people			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Patient
5	eat in a quote	gerund	man				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	have	present · progressive	a eating shark	shark		for dinner	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shark=Patient
7	put	might	a Cardiff gran	shark		cariad vocative	tree rules
8	is	present	cariad			for love or darling; welsh property	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:036-brackets-dashes-colons-semicolons-and-hyphens.lesson:4.

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, 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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