Putting it together: reading and writing like a writer, sentence 17
Slang to know: "boss" (Liverpool) and "slaps" (Gen Z) both mean great, and "heaps" (Australia) means very.
Who acts: boss, heaps · What happens: know, mean
This is a sentence of the lesson «Putting it together: reading and writing like a writer» 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 (boss, heaps), 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 | xcomp |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 6 boss | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 boss | punct |
| 6 | boss | boss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 mean | nsubj |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 boss | punct |
| 8 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 9 Liverpool | punct |
| 9 | Liverpool | Liverpool | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 boss | appos |
| 10 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 9 Liverpool | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 mean | cc |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 slaps | punct |
| 13 | slaps | slap | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 boss | conj |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 slaps | punct |
| 15 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 17 Z | punct |
| 16 | Gen | gen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 Z | compound |
| 17 | Z | z | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 slaps | appos |
| 18 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 17 Z | punct |
| 19 | both | both | CCONJ | _ | 20 mean | cc:preconj |
| 20 | mean | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Slang | conj |
| 21 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 mean | xcomp |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 means | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 means | cc |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 25 heaps | punct |
| 25 | heaps | heap | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 means | nsubj |
| 26 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 25 heaps | punct |
| 27 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 28 Australia | punct |
| 28 | Australia | Australia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 heaps | appos |
| 29 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 28 Australia | punct |
| 30 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Slang | parataxis |
| 31 | very | very | ADV | _ | 30 means | advmod |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Slang | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | 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 | boss and slaps | great property | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | mean | present | heaps | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=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:054-reading-and-writing-like-a-writer.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 ×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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