Spoken language: presenting and show-and-tell, sentence 18
In Scotland "wee" means small, so "wee man" is a fond way to say "little lad".
Who acts: wee, wee man · What happens: mean, be, say · To what, where: fond way, little lad · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (wee, wee man), 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 Scotland | case |
| 2 | Scotland | Scotland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 means | obl |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 wee | punct |
| 4 | wee | wee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 means | nsubj |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 wee | punct |
| 6 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 means | xcomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 way | punct |
| 9 | so | so | ADV | _ | 17 way | advmod |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 man | punct |
| 11 | wee | wee | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 man | amod |
| 12 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 way | nsubj |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 man | punct |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 way | cop |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 way | det |
| 16 | fond | fond | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 way | amod |
| 17 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 means | parataxis |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 say | mark |
| 19 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 way | acl |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 lad | punct |
| 21 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 lad | amod |
| 22 | lad | lad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 say | obj |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 lad | punct |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 means | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed voice=narrator
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | wee | in Scotland; small property | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot in scotland=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | wee man | a fond way | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | to-infinitive | wee not said here | little lad | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent lad=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:048-spoken-language-presenting-and-show-and-tell.lesson:18.
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): 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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