Describing: senses, showing and precise words, sentence 14
In Scots, "dreich" describes grey, damp, gloomy weather, and "pure" can mean very.
Who acts: dreich, pure · What happens: describe, mean · To what, where: grey damp gloomy weather, Scots
This is a sentence of the lesson «Describing: senses, showing and precise words» 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 (dreich, pure), 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 Scots | case |
| 2 | Scots | Scot | PROPN | Number=Plur | 7 describes | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 dreich | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 dreich | punct |
| 5 | dreich | dreich | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 describes | nsubj |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 dreich | punct |
| 7 | describes | describe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | grey | grey | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 weather | amod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 damp | punct |
| 10 | damp | damp | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 weather | amod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 gloomy | punct |
| 12 | gloomy | gloomy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 weather | amod |
| 13 | weather | weather | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 describes | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 mean | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 mean | cc |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 pure | punct |
| 17 | pure | pure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 mean | nsubj |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 pure | punct |
| 19 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 mean | aux |
| 20 | mean | mean | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 describes | conj |
| 21 | very | very | ADV | _ | 20 mean | advmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 describes | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | describe | present | dreich | grey damp gloomy weather | Scots | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent weather=Theme | |||
| 2 | mean | can | pure | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: 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:041-describing-senses-showing-and-precise-words.lesson:14.
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): R2-punct-next ×1, R6-punct-agree ×2, 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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