The older kid's «trade», sentence 7

In Liverpool a big lad told Ben, «Swap you my phone for your bike, it's boss, worth way more» — in Liverpool «boss» means brilliant.

Who acts: big lad, lad, boss · What happens: tell, swap, be, mean · To what, where: Ben, Liverpool, phone, boss · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «The older kid's «trade»» 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 (big lad, lad, boss), 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	In	in	ADP	_	2 Liverpool	case
2	Liverpool	Liverpool	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 told	obl
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 lad	det
4	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 lad	amod
5	lad	lad	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 told	nsubj
6	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	Ben	Ben	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 told	iobj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Liverpool	punct
9	«	«	PUNCT	_	10 Swap	punct
10	Swap	swap	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	6 told	ccomp
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 Swap	iobj
12	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 phone	nmod:poss
13	phone	phone	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 Swap	obj
14	for	for	ADP	_	16 bike	case
15	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 bike	nmod:poss
16	bike	bike	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 Swap	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 boss	punct
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 boss	nsubj
19	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 boss	cop
20	boss	boss	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 phone	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 way	punct
22	worth	worth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 way	amod
23	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 phone	acl
24	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	23 way	advmod
25	»	»	PUNCT	_	10 Swap	punct
26	—	-	PUNCT	_	32 means	punct
27	in	in	ADP	_	30 boss	case
28	Liverpool	Liverpool	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 boss	nmod
29	«	«	PUNCT	_	30 boss	punct
30	boss	boss	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 means	nsubj
31	»	»	PUNCT	_	30 boss	punct
32	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 told	parataxis
33	brilliant	brilliant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 means	xcomp
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 told	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	a big lad		Ben	Liverpool		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Agent ben=Recipient clause=Topic
2	swap in a quote	infinitive		my phone and boss	Ben		for your bike	tree rules
3	is a in a quote	present	lad	boss				tree rules
4	mean	present	boss Liverpool				brilliant property	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: 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:445-the-older-kids-trade.lesson:7.

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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2. 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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