Spoken language: presenting and show-and-tell, sentence 17

"G'day" is a friendly Australian greeting, fine in a relaxed class talk; dialect greetings are not wrong, they just suit some audiences better than others.

Who acts: G'day, dialect greetings, speakers · What happens: be, not be, suit · To what, where: friendly Australian greeting, audiences

This is a sentence of the lesson «Spoken language: presenting and show-and-tell» 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 (G'day, dialect greetings, speakers), 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 G'day	punct
2	G'day	G'day	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 greeting	nsubj
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 G'day	punct
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 greeting	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 greeting	det
6	friendly	friendly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 greeting	amod
7	Australian	Australian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 greeting	amod
8	greeting	greeting	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 fine	punct
10	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 greeting	amod
11	in	in	ADP	_	15 talk	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 talk	det
13	relaxed	relaxed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 class	amod
14	class	class	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 talk	compound
15	talk	talk	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 fine	obl
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 wrong	punct
17	dialect	dialect	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 greetings	compound
18	greetings	greeting	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 wrong	nsubj
19	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 wrong	cop
20	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	21 wrong	advmod
21	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 fine	appos
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 suit	punct
23	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 suit	nsubj
24	just	just	ADV	_	25 suit	advmod
25	suit	suit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 fine	parataxis
26	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	27 audiences	det
27	audiences	audience	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 suit	obj
28	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	25 suit	ccomp
29	than	than	ADP	_	30 others	case
30	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 better	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 greeting	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: evaluate
voice: narrator
polarity: pos
teacher: changed act=evaluate, polarity=pos

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present	G'day	a friendly Australian greeting		tree rules
2	not is	present	dialect greetings		wrong property	tree rules
3	suit	present	speakers = speaker	some audiences		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:048-spoken-language-presenting-and-show-and-tell.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): R5-strong ×1, R8-pos-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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