Spoken language: presenting and show-and-tell, sentence 4
Picture Kai in Liverpool before his talk: "I'm proper nervous, our kid" ("proper" means really; "our kid" means my brother or sister).
Who acts: you, I, proper, kid, Liverpool · What happens: picture, be, mean, talk · To what, where: Kai, Liverpool, brother · 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 (you, I, proper, kid), 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 | Picture | picture | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | Kai | Kai | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Picture | obj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 Liverpool | case |
| 4 | Liverpool | Liverpool | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Picture | obl |
| 5 | before | before | ADP | _ | 7 talk | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 talk | nmod:poss |
| 7 | talk | talk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Picture | obl |
| 8 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 13 nervous | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 nervous | punct |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 nervous | nsubj |
| 11 | 'm | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 nervous | cop |
| 12 | proper | proper | ADV | _ | 13 nervous | advmod |
| 13 | nervous | nervous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Picture | parataxis |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 kid | punct |
| 15 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 kid | nmod:poss |
| 16 | kid | kid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 nervous | parataxis |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 nervous | punct |
| 18 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 22 means | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 proper | punct |
| 20 | proper | proper | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 means | nsubj |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 proper | punct |
| 22 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 nervous | parataxis |
| 23 | really | really | ADV | _ | 22 means | advmod |
| 24 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 29 means | punct |
| 25 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 27 kid | punct |
| 26 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 kid | nmod:poss |
| 27 | kid | kid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 means | nsubj |
| 28 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 27 kid | punct |
| 29 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Picture | parataxis |
| 30 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 brother | nmod:poss |
| 31 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 means | obj |
| 32 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 33 sister | cc |
| 33 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 brother | conj |
| 34 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 29 means | punct |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Picture | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- command
- act
- assert
- voice
- character
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed form=imp
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | picture | imperative | you not said here | Kai | Liverpool | before Liverpool's talk | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent kai=Theme clause=Attribute | ||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | I | nervous, proper property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | mean | present | proper | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | mean | present | our kid | my brother or sister | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brother=Topic | ||||
| 5 | talk | Liverpool | nom talk «communication intransitive»: poss=agent |
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:4.
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): R6-punct-agree ×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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