Editing and redrafting, sentence 15
In Manchester "boss" means great and "nowt" means nothing; in Newcastle "pet" is a friendly word like "love".
Who acts: boss, nowt, pet · What happens: mean, be · To what, where: Manchester, nothing, friendly word, Newcastle · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Editing and redrafting» 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, nowt, pet), 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 | Manchester | Manchester | 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 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 means | cc |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 nowt | punct |
| 10 | nowt | nowt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 means | nsubj |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 nowt | punct |
| 12 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 means | conj |
| 13 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 12 means | obj |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 Newcastle | punct |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 Newcastle | case |
| 16 | Newcastle | Newcastle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 word | obl |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 pet | punct |
| 18 | pet | pet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 word | nsubj |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 pet | punct |
| 20 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 word | cop |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 word | det |
| 22 | friendly | friendly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 word | amod |
| 23 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 means | ccomp |
| 24 | like | like | ADP | _ | 26 love | case |
| 25 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 26 love | punct |
| 26 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 word | nmod |
| 27 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 26 love | punct |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 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 | boss | Manchester | great property | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | mean | present | nowt | nothing | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Topic | ||||
| 3 | is a | present | pet | a friendly word | Newcastle | like love | tree rules |
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:043-editing-and-redrafting.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 ×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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