Writing assessment and the "Year 6 panic", sentence 16

Slang to know: in Liverpool "proper" means really and "our kid" means my brother or sister; Gen Alpha "it's giving doom" means "it feels like doom"; in Newcastle "divvent" means don't and "canny" means quite or nice.

Who acts: proper, kid, Gen, divvent · What happens: know, mean, give, feel, not mean · To what, where: brother, doom · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Writing assessment and the "Year 6 panic"» 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 (proper, kid, Gen, divvent), 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	root	root
2	to	to	PART	_	3 know	mark
3	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Slang	acl
4	:	:	PUNCT	_	10 means	punct
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 Liverpool	case
6	Liverpool	Liverpool	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 means	obl
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 proper	punct
8	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 means	nsubj
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 proper	punct
10	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 know	ccomp
11	really	really	ADV	_	10 means	advmod
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 means	cc
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	15 kid	punct
14	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 kid	nmod:poss
15	kid	kid	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 means	nsubj
16	"	"	PUNCT	_	15 kid	punct
17	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 means	conj
18	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 brother	nmod:poss
19	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 means	obj
20	or	or	CCONJ	_	21 sister	cc
21	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 brother	conj
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 giving	punct
23	Gen	Gen	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 giving	nsubj
24	Alpha	Alpha	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 Gen	flat
25	"	"	PUNCT	_	28 giving	punct
26	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 giving	nsubj
27	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 giving	aux
28	giving	give	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 means	ccomp
29	doom	doom	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 giving	obj
30	"	"	PUNCT	_	28 giving	punct
31	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 giving	ccomp
32	"	"	PUNCT	_	34 feels	punct
33	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 feels	nsubj
34	feels	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 means	ccomp
35	like	like	ADP	_	36 doom	case
36	doom	doom	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 feels	obl
37	"	"	PUNCT	_	34 feels	punct
38	;	;	PUNCT	_	42 divvent	punct
39	in	in	ADP	_	40 Newcastle	case
40	Newcastle	Newcastle	PROPN	Number=Sing	44 means	obl
41	"	"	PUNCT	_	42 divvent	punct
42	divvent	divvent	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 means	nsubj
43	"	"	PUNCT	_	42 divvent	punct
44	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 giving	parataxis
45	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	51 means	aux
46	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	51 means	advmod
47	and	and	CCONJ	_	49 canny	cc
48	"	"	PUNCT	_	49 canny	punct
49	canny	canny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 divvent	conj
50	"	"	PUNCT	_	49 canny	punct
51	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	44 means	parataxis
52	quite	quite	ADV	_	51 means	obj
53	or	or	CCONJ	_	54 nice	cc
54	nice	nice	ADJ	Degree=Pos	52 quite	conj
55	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Slang	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	know	to-infinitive				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	mean	present	proper		in Liverpool	vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot in liverpool=Attribute
3	mean	present	our kid	my brother or sister		tree rules
4	give in a quote	present · progressive	Gen	doom		tree rules
5	mean	present	Gen not said here			vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	feel in a quote	present	kid		like doom	vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V S»: agent=Agent like doom=Theme
7	mean	present	divvent		in Newcastle	vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot in newcastle=Attribute
8	not mean	present · do-support				vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent quite=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:053-writing-assessment-and-the-year-6-panic.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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×4, R7-rel-agree ×2. 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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