Vowel teams, split digraphs and choosing the spelling, sentence 26

Slang in this lesson: «howay» means come on and «canny» here means quite (North East England); «proper job» means well done and «my lover» is a friendly greeting (West Country); «heaps» means a lot (Australia); «can or not» means «is it allowed?» in Singapore English.

Who acts: howay, canny, proper job, lover, heaps · What happens: mean, come on, do, be, allow · To what, where: friendly greeting, lot, Singapore English, lover · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Vowel teams, split digraphs and choosing the spelling» 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 (howay, canny, proper job, lover), 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	Slang	slang	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	in	in	ADP	_	4 lesson	case
3	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 lesson	det
4	lesson	lesson	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Slang	nmod
5	:	:	PUNCT	_	10 come	punct
6	«	«	PUNCT	_	7 howay	punct
7	howay	howay	X	_	9 means	nsubj
8	»	»	PUNCT	_	7 howay	punct
9	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Slang	parataxis
10	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Slang	ccomp
11	on	on	ADV	_	10 come	advmod
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 means	cc
13	«	«	PUNCT	_	14 canny	punct
14	canny	canny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 means	nsubj
15	»	»	PUNCT	_	14 canny	punct
16	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	17 means	advmod
17	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 means	conj
18	quite	quite	ADV	_	17 means	ccomp
19	(	(	PUNCT	_	22 England	punct
20	North	North	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 East	compound
21	East	East	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 England	compound
22	England	England	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 quite	parataxis
23	)	)	PUNCT	_	22 England	punct
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	29 means	punct
25	«	«	PUNCT	_	27 job	punct
26	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 job	amod
27	job	job	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 means	nsubj
28	»	»	PUNCT	_	27 job	punct
29	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Slang	parataxis
30	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	31 done	advmod
31	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	29 means	xcomp
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 greeting	cc
33	«	«	PUNCT	_	35 lover	punct
34	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 lover	nmod:poss
35	lover	lover	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 greeting	nsubj
36	»	»	PUNCT	_	35 lover	punct
37	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	40 greeting	cop
38	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	40 greeting	det
39	friendly	friendly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 greeting	amod
40	greeting	greeting	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 means	conj
41	(	(	PUNCT	_	43 Country	punct
42	West	West	PROPN	Number=Sing	43 Country	compound
43	Country	Country	PROPN	Number=Sing	40 greeting	appos
44	)	)	PUNCT	_	43 Country	punct
45	;	;	PUNCT	_	47 heaps	punct
46	«	«	PUNCT	_	47 heaps	punct
47	heaps	heap	NOUN	Number=Plur	49 means	nsubj
48	»	»	PUNCT	_	47 heaps	punct
49	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Slang	parataxis
50	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	51 lot	det
51	lot	lot	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 means	obj
52	(	(	PUNCT	_	53 Australia	punct
53	Australia	Australia	PROPN	Number=Sing	51 lot	appos
54	)	)	PUNCT	_	53 Australia	punct
55	;	;	PUNCT	_	61 means	punct
56	«	«	PUNCT	_	57 can	punct
57	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	61 means	aux
58	or	or	CCONJ	_	59 not	cc
59	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	57 can	conj
60	»	»	PUNCT	_	57 can	punct
61	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Slang	parataxis
62	«	«	PUNCT	_	65 allowed	punct
63	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	65 allowed	aux:pass
64	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	65 allowed	nsubj:pass
65	allowed	allow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	61 means	ccomp
66	?	?	PUNCT	_	65 allowed	punct
67	»	»	PUNCT	_	65 allowed	punct
68	in	in	ADP	_	70 English	case
69	Singapore	Singapore	PROPN	Number=Sing	70 English	compound
70	English	English	PROPN	Number=Sing	61 means	obl
71	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Slang	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed act=assert

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	mean	present	howay				vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
2	come on	infinitive					vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	mean	present	canny		here		vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
4	mean	present	proper job				vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	do not said to happen	participle	proper job not said here			well property	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	is a	present	my lover	a friendly greeting			tree rules
7	mean	present	heaps	a lot			vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lot=Topic
8	mean	can			Singapore English		vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
9	allow in a quote	present · passive		lover			vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Beneficiary

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:004-vowel-teams-split-digraphs-and-choosing-the-spelling.lesson:26.

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 ×4, R7-rel-agree ×4, 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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