Olympiad: tricky comprehension, sentence 11

"The old man the boat" is a real sentence: "the old" means old people, and "man" is a verb meaning to work or crew the boat.

Who acts: old man, old, man, verb · What happens: be, mean, work, crew · To what, where: real sentence, old people, verb, boat

This is a sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: tricky comprehension» 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 (old man, old, man, verb), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 man	punct
2	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 man	det
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 man	amod
4	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 sentence	nsubj
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 boat	det
6	boat	boat	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 man	appos
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 sentence	punct
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 sentence	cop
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 sentence	det
10	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 sentence	amod
11	sentence	sentence	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
12	:	:	PUNCT	_	17 means	punct
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	15 old	punct
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 old	det
15	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 means	nsubj
16	"	"	PUNCT	_	15 old	punct
17	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 sentence	parataxis
18	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 people	amod
19	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 means	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 verb	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 verb	cc
22	"	"	PUNCT	_	23 man	punct
23	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 verb	nsubj
24	"	"	PUNCT	_	23 man	punct
25	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 verb	cop
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 verb	det
27	verb	verb	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 means	conj
28	meaning	mean	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	27 verb	acl
29	to	to	PART	_	30 work	mark
30	work	work	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 meaning	xcomp
31	or	or	CCONJ	_	32 crew	cc
32	crew	crew	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 work	conj
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 boat	det
34	boat	boat	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 crew	obj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 sentence	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	is a	present	the old man	a real sentence	tree rules
2	mean	present	the old	old people	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Topic
3	is a	present	man	a verb	tree rules
4	mean	gerund	a verb not said here		vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	work not said to happen	to-infinitive	a verb not said here		vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	crew	infinitive	a verb not said here	the boat	vn captain-29.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boat=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:060-olympiad-tricky-comprehension.lesson:11.

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 ×1, 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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