Good manners on buses and trains, and borrowing things, sentence 23

Strangers' private lives are their business: «snogging» is British slang for kissing, and «I'm done with him» means someone is ending a relationship.

Who acts: Strangers, snogging, Using, someone · What happens: be, kiss, mean, end · To what, where: business, British slang, relationship · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Good manners on buses and trains, and borrowing things» 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 (Strangers, snogging, Using, someone), 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	Strangers	stranger	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 business	nsubj
2	'	's	PART	_	1 Strangers	case
3	private	private	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 lives	amod
4	lives	life	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Strangers	conj
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 business	cop
6	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 business	nmod:poss
7	business	business	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	:	:	PUNCT	_	7 business	punct
9	«	«	PUNCT	_	10 snogging	punct
10	snogging	snog	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 slang	nsubj
11	»	»	PUNCT	_	10 snogging	punct
12	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 slang	cop
13	British	British	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 slang	amod
14	slang	slang	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 business	parataxis
15	for	for	ADP	_	16 kissing	case
16	kissing	kiss	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	14 slang	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 means	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 means	cc
19	«	«	PUNCT	_	22 done	punct
20	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 done	nsubj
21	'm	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 done	cop
22	done	done	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 means	advcl
23	with	with	ADP	_	24 him	case
24	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 done	obl
25	»	»	PUNCT	_	22 done	punct
26	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 slang	conj
27	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	29 ending	nsubj
28	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 ending	aux
29	ending	end	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	26 means	ccomp
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 relationship	det
31	relationship	relationship	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 ending	obj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 business	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Strangers and private lives	lives's business		tree rules
2	is a	present	snogging	British slang		tree rules
3	kiss	gerund				vn marry-36.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	is in a quote	present	Using		with push; done property	tree rules
5	mean	present	snogging not said here			vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	end	present · progressive	someone	a relationship		vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector relationship=Eventuality

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:225-public-transport-and-borrowing.lesson:23.

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 ×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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