Debating and discussion, sentence 16
Slang to know: "cap" means a lie (Gen Alpha), "mardy" means grumpy (Leeds and the Midlands), "can or not?" means "is it allowed?" (Singapore English), and "y'all" means you all (the southern USA).
Who acts: cap, mardy, y'all · What happens: know, mean, allow · To what, where: lie, Singapore English, cap, you · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Debating and discussion» 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 (cap, mardy, y'all), 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 | Slang | slang | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 means | dislocated |
| 2 | to | to | PART | _ | 3 know | mark |
| 3 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Slang | acl |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 8 means | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 cap | punct |
| 6 | cap | cap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 means | nsubj |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 cap | punct |
| 8 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 34 means | parataxis |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 lie | det |
| 10 | lie | lie | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 means | obj |
| 11 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 12 Gen | punct |
| 12 | Gen | Gen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 lie | appos |
| 13 | Alpha | Alpha | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Gen | flat |
| 14 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 13 Alpha | punct |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 means | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 mardy | punct |
| 17 | mardy | mardy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 means | nsubj |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 mardy | punct |
| 19 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 means | conj |
| 20 | grumpy | grumpy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 means | xcomp |
| 21 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 22 Leeds | punct |
| 22 | Leeds | Leeds | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 grumpy | obl |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 Midlands | cc |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 Midlands | det |
| 25 | Midlands | Midlands | PROPN | Number=Ptan | 22 Leeds | conj |
| 26 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 22 Leeds | punct |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 can | punct |
| 28 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 29 can | punct |
| 29 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 34 means | nsubj |
| 30 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 31 not | cc |
| 31 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 29 can | conj |
| 32 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 29 can | punct |
| 33 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Slang | punct |
| 34 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 35 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 38 allowed | punct |
| 36 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 38 allowed | aux:pass |
| 37 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 allowed | nsubj:pass |
| 38 | allowed | allow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 34 means | ccomp |
| 39 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 38 allowed | punct |
| 40 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 38 allowed | punct |
| 41 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 43 English | punct |
| 42 | Singapore | Singapore | PROPN | Number=Sing | 43 English | compound |
| 43 | English | English | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 means | obj |
| 44 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 43 English | punct |
| 45 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 50 means | punct |
| 46 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 50 means | cc |
| 47 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 48 y'all | punct |
| 48 | y'all | y'all | NOUN | Number=Sing | 50 means | nsubj |
| 49 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 48 y'all | punct |
| 50 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 34 means | parataxis |
| 51 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 50 means | obj |
| 52 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 51 you | nmod:unmarked |
| 53 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 56 USA | punct |
| 54 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 56 USA | det |
| 55 | southern | southern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 56 USA | amod |
| 56 | USA | USA | PROPN | Number=Sing | 51 you | appos |
| 57 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 56 USA | punct |
| 58 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Slang | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed form=decl, act=assert, voice=narrator
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | to-infinitive | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 2 | mean | present | cap | a lie | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lie=Topic | ||||
| 3 | mean | present | mardy | grumpy property | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | mean | present | Singapore English | Slang dislocated | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | allow in a quote | present · passive | cap | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Beneficiary | |||||
| 6 | mean | present | y'all | you | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=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:049-debating-and-discussion.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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×4. 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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