Describing: senses, showing and precise words, sentence 15
In Australian English "heaps" means lots or very; in Gen Z slang "main character energy" means acting like the star of a film.
Who acts: main character energy · What happens: mean, act · To what, where: lots, Gen Z slang · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (main character energy), 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 | _ | 3 English | case |
| 2 | Australian | Australian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 English | amod |
| 3 | English | English | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 means | obl |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 heaps | punct |
| 5 | heaps | heap | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 English | conj |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 heaps | punct |
| 7 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | lots | lot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 means | obj |
| 9 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 10 very | cc |
| 10 | very | very | ADV | _ | 8 lots | conj |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 7 means | punct |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 slang | case |
| 13 | Gen | gen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 slang | compound |
| 14 | Z | z | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 slang | compound |
| 15 | slang | slang | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 means | obl |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 energy | punct |
| 17 | main | main | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 energy | amod |
| 18 | character | character | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 energy | compound |
| 19 | energy | energy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 means | nsubj |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 energy | punct |
| 21 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 means | parataxis |
| 22 | acting | act | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 21 means | ccomp |
| 23 | like | like | ADP | _ | 25 star | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 star | det |
| 25 | star | star | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 acting | obl |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 film | case |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 film | det |
| 28 | film | film | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 star | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 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 | lots | in Australian English and heaps | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot lot=Theme in english=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | mean | present | main character energy | Gen Z slang | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | act | gerund | like the star of a film | vn masquerade-29.6-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent like star=Attribute |
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:15.
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 ×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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