Paragraphs and cohesion: holding a text together, sentence 16
In Leeds and other parts of Northern England "well" means very, as in "well long"; in Gen Alpha slang "slay" means do brilliantly.
Who acts: Gen slang · What happens: mean, slay, do · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Paragraphs and cohesion: holding a text together» 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 (Gen slang), 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 Leeds | case |
| 2 | Leeds | Leeds | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 means | obl |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 parts | cc |
| 4 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 parts | amod |
| 5 | parts | part | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 Leeds | conj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 England | case |
| 7 | Northern | Northern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 England | amod |
| 8 | England | England | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 parts | nmod |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 well | punct |
| 10 | well | well | INTJ | _ | 12 means | nsubj |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 well | punct |
| 12 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 means | conj |
| 13 | very | very | ADV | _ | 19 long | advmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 very | punct |
| 15 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 19 long | mark |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 long | case |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 long | punct |
| 18 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 19 long | advmod |
| 19 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 12 means | obj |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 long | punct |
| 21 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 slang | punct |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 Gen | case |
| 23 | Gen | Gen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 slang | compound |
| 24 | Alpha | Alpha | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 Gen | flat |
| 25 | slang | slang | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 means | nsubj |
| 26 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 27 slay | punct |
| 27 | slay | slay | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 25 slang | parataxis |
| 28 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 27 slay | punct |
| 29 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 30 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 means | xcomp |
| 31 | brilliantly | brilliantly | ADV | _ | 30 do | advmod |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 means | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | in Leeds and other parts of Northern England | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot long=Theme in leeds=Attribute | |||||
| 2 | slay in a quote | infinitive | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | mean | present | Gen slang | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | do not said to happen | infinitive | Gen slang not said here | brilliantly property | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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:037-paragraphs-and-cohesion-holding-a-text-together.lesson:16.
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 ×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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