Handshakes, waves and greetings around the world, sentence 4

A boy from Chicago in Dublin is asked "What's the craic?"; he learns it means "How are things?" and answers "Not much, and you?"

Who acts: boy, craic · What happens: ask, be, learn, mean, answer · To what, where: boy, craic, things · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Handshakes, waves and greetings around the world» of the everyday 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 (boy, craic), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 boy	det
2	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 asked	nsubj
3	from	from	ADP	_	4 Chicago	case
4	Chicago	Chicago	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 boy	nmod
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 Dublin	case
6	Dublin	Dublin	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Chicago	nmod
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 asked	aux:pass
8	asked	ask	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 craic	punct
10	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	13 craic	nsubj
11	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 craic	cop
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 craic	det
13	craic	craic	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 asked	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	13 craic	punct
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 craic	punct
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 learns	punct
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 learns	nsubj
18	learns	learn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 asked	parataxis
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 means	nsubj
20	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 learns	ccomp
21	"	"	PUNCT	_	22 How	punct
22	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	24 things	advmod
23	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 things	cop
24	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 means	obj
25	?	?	PUNCT	_	18 learns	punct
26	"	"	PUNCT	_	18 learns	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 answers	cc
28	answers	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 learns	conj
29	"	"	PUNCT	_	31 much	punct
30	Not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	31 much	advmod
31	much	much	ADV	_	28 answers	advmod
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 you	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 you	cc
34	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	31 much	conj
35	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 asked	punct
36	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 asked	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed form=decl, act=narrate, voice=narrator

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	present · passive		a boy from Chicago in Dublin	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient
2	is a in a quote	present		the craic	tree rules
3	learn	present	boy		vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	mean	present	craic		vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
5	is a in a quote	present		things	tree rules
6	answer speech: assert	present	boy not said here		vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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:everyday:124-handshakes-waves-and-local-customs.lesson:4.

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, R6-punct-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.

See the release 0.4.

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