Adding -ed and -ing: doubling and dropping e, sentence 29

Slang in this lesson: «fixin' to» means «about to» in the US South; «boss» means great in Manchester and Liverpool; «me mam» is Northern English for «my mum».

Who acts: boss, me · What happens: fixin, means, », mean, be · To what, where: US South, Northern English

This is a sentence of the lesson «Adding -ed and -ing: doubling and dropping e» 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, me), 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	_	7 fixin	punct
6	«	«	PUNCT	_	7 fixin	punct
7	fixin	fixin	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	11 means	nsubj
8	'	'	PUNCT	_	7 fixin	punct
9	to	to	ADP	_	11 means	case
10	»	»	PUNCT	_	11 means	punct
11	means	means	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Slang	parataxis
12	«	«	PUNCT	_	15 »	punct
13	about	about	ADV	_	15 »	advmod
14	to	to	PART	_	15 »	mark
15	»	»	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	11 means	ccomp
16	in	in	ADP	_	19 South	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 South	det
18	US	US	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 South	compound
19	South	South	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 »	obl
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 boss	punct
21	«	«	PUNCT	_	22 boss	punct
22	boss	boss	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 means	nsubj
23	»	»	PUNCT	_	22 boss	punct
24	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Slang	parataxis
25	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 means	xcomp
26	in	in	ADP	_	27 Manchester	case
27	Manchester	Manchester	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 means	obl
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 Liverpool	cc
29	Liverpool	Liverpool	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 Manchester	conj
30	;	;	PUNCT	_	37 English	punct
31	«	«	PUNCT	_	37 English	punct
32	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	37 English	nsubj
33	mam	mam	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 me	flat
34	»	»	PUNCT	_	33 mam	punct
35	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	37 English	cop
36	Northern	Northern	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 English	amod
37	English	English	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Slang	parataxis
38	for	for	ADP	_	41 mum	case
39	«	«	PUNCT	_	41 mum	punct
40	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	41 mum	nmod:poss
41	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 English	obl
42	»	»	PUNCT	_	41 mum	punct
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Slang	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: pos
teacher: changed act=assert

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	fixin in a quote	infinitive					tree rules
2	means	present					tree rules
3	»	to-infinitive			the US South	about property	tree rules
4	mean	present	boss			in Manchester and Liverpool; great property	vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot in manchester=Attribute
5	is a	present	me	Northern English		for my mum	tree rules

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:007-adding-ed-and-ing-doubling-and-dropping-e.lesson:29.

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): R6-punct-agree ×3, 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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