SATs: the reading paper, sentence 17
In Glasgow "hen" is a fond word for a girl or woman, and "dinnae" means "don't"; in Singapore English "can or not?" means "is it allowed?"
Who acts: Glasgow hen, fond word · What happens: be, mean, not do, allow · To what, where: fond word, word · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «SATs: the reading paper» 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 (Glasgow hen, fond word), 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 | _ | 4 hen | case |
| 2 | Glasgow | Glasgow | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 hen | compound |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 hen | punct |
| 4 | hen | hen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 word | nsubj |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 hen | punct |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 word | cop |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 word | det |
| 8 | fond | fond | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 word | amod |
| 9 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 means | nsubj |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 girl | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 girl | det |
| 12 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 word | nmod |
| 13 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 14 woman | cc |
| 14 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 girl | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 means | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 means | cc |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 dinnae | punct |
| 18 | dinnae | dinnae | X | Foreign=Yes | 20 means | discourse |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 dinnae | punct |
| 20 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 35 means | parataxis |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 do | punct |
| 22 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 20 means | conj |
| 23 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 22 do | advmod |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 do | punct |
| 25 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 30 can | punct |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 English | case |
| 27 | Singapore | Singapore | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 English | compound |
| 28 | English | English | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 can | obl |
| 29 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 30 can | punct |
| 30 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 35 means | ccomp |
| 31 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 32 not | cc |
| 32 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 30 can | conj |
| 33 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 30 can | punct |
| 34 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 30 can | punct |
| 35 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 36 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 39 allowed | punct |
| 37 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 39 allowed | aux:pass |
| 38 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 allowed | nsubj:pass |
| 39 | allowed | allow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 35 means | ccomp |
| 40 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 39 allowed | punct |
| 41 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 39 allowed | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Glasgow hen | a fond word | for a girl or woman | tree rules | |||
| 2 | mean | present | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | not do in a quote | infinitive | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | mean | present | a fond word | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | allow in a quote | present · passive | word | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Beneficiary |
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:051-sats-the-reading-paper.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, R6-punct-agree ×4, R7-rel-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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