Olympiad: the Spelling Bee, sentence 8
Onomatopoeia is spelled O-N-O-M-A-T-O-P-O-E-I-A; it comes from Greek words meaning "making names", and it means a word that sounds like what it means.
Who acts: M A T, Onomatopoeia, Greek words, word · What happens: spell, come, mean, make, sound · To what, where: Onomatopoeia, Greek words, names, word · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: the Spelling Bee» 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 (M A T, Onomatopoeia, Greek words, 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 | Onomatopoeia | onomatopoeia | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 spelled | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 spelled | aux:pass |
| 3 | spelled | spell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | O | O | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 T | nsubj |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 N | punct |
| 6 | N | N | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 O | conj |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 T | punct |
| 8 | O | O | ADP | Abbr=Yes | 14 T | case |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 O | punct |
| 10 | M | M | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 T | compound |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 M | punct |
| 12 | A | A | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 T | compound |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 A | punct |
| 14 | T | t | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 spelled | obl:agent |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 E | punct |
| 16 | O | O | ADP | Abbr=Yes | 22 E | case |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 O | punct |
| 18 | P | p | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 E | compound |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 E | punct |
| 20 | O | O | ADP | Abbr=Yes | 22 E | case |
| 21 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 O | punct |
| 22 | E | E | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 T | appos |
| 23 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 E | punct |
| 24 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 T | conj |
| 25 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 26 A | punct |
| 26 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 T | det |
| 27 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 29 comes | punct |
| 28 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 comes | nsubj |
| 29 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 spelled | parataxis |
| 30 | from | from | ADP | _ | 32 words | case |
| 31 | Greek | Greek | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 words | amod |
| 32 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 comes | obl |
| 33 | meaning | mean | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 32 words | acl |
| 34 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 35 making | punct |
| 35 | making | make | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 33 meaning | ccomp |
| 36 | names | name | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 making | obj |
| 37 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 35 making | punct |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 means | punct |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 means | cc |
| 40 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 means | nsubj |
| 41 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 spelled | conj |
| 42 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 43 word | det |
| 43 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 means | obj |
| 44 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 45 sounds | nsubj |
| 45 | sounds | sound | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 43 word | acl:relcl |
| 46 | like | like | SCONJ | _ | 49 means | mark |
| 47 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 49 means | obj |
| 48 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 49 means | nsubj |
| 49 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 45 sounds | advcl |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 spelled | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spell | present · passive | a M A T | Onomatopoeia | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | come | present | Onomatopoeia | Greek words | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from word=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | mean | gerund | Greek words not said here | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | make in a quote | gerund | names | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset name=Product | |||||
| 5 | mean | present | Onomatopoeia | a word | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Topic | ||||
| 6 | sound | present | a word | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 7 | mean | present | Onomatopoeia | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=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:055-olympiad-the-spelling-bee.lesson:8.
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): R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-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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