Maddie the tomboy, sentence 22
A nickname like «Mad Maddie» can be meant as a joke but still sting.
What happens: mean, sting · To what, where: nickname
This is a sentence of the lesson «Maddie the tomboy» 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: 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 nickname | det |
| 2 | nickname | nickname | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 meant | nsubj |
| 3 | like | like | ADP | _ | 5 Mad | case |
| 4 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 5 Mad | punct |
| 5 | Mad | Mad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 nickname | nmod |
| 6 | Maddie | Maddie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Mad | flat |
| 7 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 6 Maddie | punct |
| 8 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 meant | aux |
| 9 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 10 meant | aux:pass |
| 10 | meant | mean | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 11 | as | as | ADP | _ | 13 joke | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 joke | det |
| 13 | joke | joke | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 meant | obl |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 sting | cc |
| 15 | still | still | ADV | _ | 16 sting | advmod |
| 16 | sting | sting | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 meant | conj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 meant | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | can · passive | a nickname like Mad | as a joke | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Topic as joke=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | sting | infinitive | still | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
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:378-maddie-the-tomboy.lesson:22.
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 ×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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