Writing to inform, instruct and persuade, sentence 16
Adverts use persuasive language and slogans, sometimes slang to sound friendly to young people; "bussin'" in Gen Z slang means really good.
Who acts: Adverts, Gen, bussin · What happens: use, sound, z, mean · To what, where: persuasive language, good
This is a sentence of the lesson «Writing to inform, instruct and persuade» 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 (Adverts, Gen, bussin), 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 | Adverts | advert | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 use | nsubj |
| 2 | use | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | persuasive | persuasive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 language | amod |
| 4 | language | language | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 use | obj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 slogans | cc |
| 6 | slogans | slogan | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 language | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 slang | punct |
| 8 | sometimes | sometimes | ADV | PronType=Ind | 9 slang | advmod |
| 9 | slang | slang | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 slogans | appos |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 sound | mark |
| 11 | sound | sound | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 use | advcl |
| 12 | friendly | friendly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 sound | xcomp |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 people | case |
| 14 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 people | amod |
| 15 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 friendly | obl |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 bussin | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 bussin | punct |
| 18 | bussin | bussin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 means | nsubj |
| 19 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 18 bussin | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 bussin | punct |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 slang | case |
| 22 | Gen | Gen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 Z | nsubj |
| 23 | Z | z | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 slang | compound |
| 24 | slang | slang | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 bussin | nmod |
| 25 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 use | parataxis |
| 26 | really | really | ADV | _ | 27 good | advmod |
| 27 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 means | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 use | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | use | present | Adverts | persuasive language and slogans | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent language=Patient | ||||
| 2 | sound | to-infinitive | Adverts not said here | friendly property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | z | Gen | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | mean | present | bussin in Z slang | good | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent good=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:044-writing-to-inform-instruct-and-persuade.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): 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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