Soft words for hard things: relations and family and children's behaviour, sentence 19
"Threenager" means a defiant three-year-old acting like a moody teenager (jokey).
Who acts: Threenager, defiant year old · What happens: mean, acting · To what, where: defiant year old
This is a sentence of the lesson «Soft words for hard things: relations and family and children's behaviour» of the euphemisms 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 (Threenager, defiant year old), 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 | _ | 2 Threenager | punct |
| 2 | Threenager | threenager | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 means | nsubj |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Threenager | punct |
| 4 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 old | det |
| 6 | defiant | defiant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 old | amod |
| 7 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 year | nummod |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 three | punct |
| 9 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 old | compound |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 year | punct |
| 11 | old | old | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 means | obj |
| 12 | acting | acting | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 old | acl |
| 13 | like | like | ADP | _ | 16 teenager | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 teenager | det |
| 15 | moody | moody | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 teenager | amod |
| 16 | teenager | teenager | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 acting | obl |
| 17 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 18 jokey | punct |
| 18 | jokey | jokey | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 teenager | amod |
| 19 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 18 jokey | punct |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 means | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | Threenager | a defiant year old | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent old=Topic | ||||
| 2 | acting | gerund | a defiant year old not said here | like a moody teenager | 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:euphemisms:014-family-and-behaviour.lesson:19.
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 ×1, R7-rel-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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