Spelling plurals: -s, -es, -ies, -ves and odd ones, sentence 28

Slang in this lesson: «arvo» is Australian for afternoon; «no cap» means «no lie, for real»; «wee» is Scottish for small; «mate» means friend.

Who acts: arvo, cap, wee, mate · What happens: be, mean · To what, where: lie, friend

This is a sentence of the lesson «Spelling plurals: -s, -es, -ies, -ves and odd ones» 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 (arvo, cap, wee, mate), 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	in	in	ADP	_	4 lesson	case
3	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 lesson	det
4	lesson	lesson	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Slang	obl
5	:	:	PUNCT	_	10 Australian	punct
6	«	«	PUNCT	_	7 arvo	punct
7	arvo	arvo	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 Australian	nsubj
8	»	»	PUNCT	_	7 arvo	punct
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 Australian	cop
10	Australian	Australian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 lesson	conj
11	for	for	ADP	_	12 afternoon	case
12	afternoon	afternoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 Australian	obl
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 means	punct
14	«	«	PUNCT	_	16 cap	punct
15	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	16 cap	det
16	cap	cap	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 means	nsubj
17	»	»	PUNCT	_	16 cap	punct
18	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Slang	advcl
19	«	«	PUNCT	_	21 lie	punct
20	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	21 lie	det
21	lie	lie	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 means	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 lie	punct
23	for	for	ADP	_	24 real	case
24	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 lie	amod
25	»	»	PUNCT	_	21 lie	punct
26	;	;	PUNCT	_	31 Scottish	punct
27	«	«	PUNCT	_	28 wee	punct
28	wee	wee	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 Scottish	nsubj
29	»	»	PUNCT	_	28 wee	punct
30	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 Scottish	cop
31	Scottish	Scottish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 Australian	conj
32	for	for	ADP	_	33 small	case
33	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 Scottish	obl
34	;	;	PUNCT	_	36 mate	punct
35	«	«	PUNCT	_	36 mate	punct
36	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 means	nsubj
37	»	»	PUNCT	_	36 mate	punct
38	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Slang	parataxis
39	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 means	obj
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Slang	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	arvo		afternoon	australian property	tree rules
2	mean	present	no cap	no lie			vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lie=Topic
3	is	present	wee			for small; scottish property	tree rules
4	mean	present	mate	friend			vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent friend=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:006-spelling-plurals.lesson:28.

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): R8-pos-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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