Openings that hook the reader, sentence 17
In Liverpool "boss" means great; in the East Midlands "me duck" is a friendly way to address someone.
Who acts: boss, me · What happens: mean, be, address · To what, where: Liverpool, friendly way, East Midlands, someone · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Openings that hook the reader» 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 (boss, me), 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 | _ | 4 boss | case |
| 2 | Liverpool | Liverpool | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 means | obl |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 boss | punct |
| 4 | boss | boss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 means | nsubj |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 boss | punct |
| 6 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 means | xcomp |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 6 means | punct |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 Midlands | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Midlands | det |
| 11 | East | East | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Midlands | compound |
| 12 | Midlands | Midlands | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 way | obl |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 Midlands | punct |
| 14 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 way | nsubj |
| 15 | duck | duck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 me | flat |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 duck | punct |
| 17 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 way | cop |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 way | det |
| 19 | friendly | friendly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 way | amod |
| 20 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 means | ccomp |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 address | mark |
| 22 | address | address | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 way | acl |
| 23 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 22 address | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 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 | boss | Liverpool | great property | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | is a | present | me | a friendly way | the East Midlands | tree rules | |||
| 3 | address | to-infinitive | boss not said here | someone | vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent someone=Destination |
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:040-openings-that-hook-the-reader.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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-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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