Building tension and suspense, sentence 16
In Leeds and the Midlands "mardy" means sulky or grumpy, not scary; "dead" can mean very, as in "dead scary".
What happens: mean
This is a sentence of the lesson «Building tension and suspense» 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: 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 | 9 means | obl |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 mardy | cc |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Midlands | det |
| 5 | Midlands | Midlands | PROPN | Number=Plur | 2 Leeds | conj |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 mardy | punct |
| 7 | mardy | mardy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Leeds | conj |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 mardy | punct |
| 9 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | sulky | sulky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 means | xcomp |
| 11 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 12 grumpy | cc |
| 12 | grumpy | grumpy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 sulky | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 scary | punct |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 scary | advmod |
| 15 | scary | scary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 sulky | conj |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 dead | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 dead | punct |
| 18 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 sulky | conj |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 dead | punct |
| 20 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 mean | aux |
| 21 | mean | mean | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 means | parataxis |
| 22 | very | very | ADV | _ | 21 mean | advmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 scary | punct |
| 24 | as | as | ADP | _ | 28 scary | case |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 scary | case |
| 26 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 28 scary | punct |
| 27 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 scary | amod |
| 28 | scary | scary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 mean | parataxis |
| 29 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 28 scary | punct |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 means | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | in Leeds and the Midlands and mardy; sulky property | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot in leeds=Attribute | |||||
| 2 | mean | can | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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:042-building-tension-and-suspense.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): R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×3. 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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