Building tension and suspense, sentence 17
"Sus" is short for suspicious; in New England "wicked" means very.
Who acts: Sus, wicked · What happens: be, 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: who acts (Sus, wicked), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Sus | punct |
| 2 | Sus | sus | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 short | nsubj |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Sus | punct |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 short | cop |
| 5 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 suspicious | case |
| 7 | suspicious | suspicious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 short | obl |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 means | punct |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 England | case |
| 10 | New | New | PROPN | _ | 11 England | flat |
| 11 | England | England | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 means | obl |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 wicked | punct |
| 13 | wicked | wicked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 means | nsubj |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 wicked | punct |
| 15 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 short | parataxis |
| 16 | very | very | ADV | _ | 15 means | advmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 short | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Sus | for suspicious; short property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | mean | present | wicked | in New England | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot in england=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:042-building-tension-and-suspense.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): no change. 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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