Stories that change, sentence 47
«Yeah nah» (Australia, New Zealand) means no; «cracked up» means burst out laughing; a «scuffle» is a small fight.
Who acts: scuffle · What happens: mean, crack up, burst out, laugh, be · To what, where: small fight · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Stories that change» 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 (scuffle), 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 | _ | 3 nah | punct |
| 2 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 3 nah | discourse |
| 3 | nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 11 means | nsubj |
| 4 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 3 nah | punct |
| 5 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 6 Australia | punct |
| 6 | Australia | Australia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 nah | appos |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 Zealand | punct |
| 8 | New | New | PROPN | _ | 9 Zealand | compound |
| 9 | Zealand | Zealand | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Australia | conj |
| 10 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 6 Australia | punct |
| 11 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | no | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 11 means | discourse |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 cracked | punct |
| 14 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 15 cracked | punct |
| 15 | cracked | crack | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 means | nsubj |
| 16 | up | up | ADP | _ | 15 cracked | compound:prt |
| 17 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 15 cracked | punct |
| 18 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 means | conj |
| 19 | burst | burst | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 means | ccomp |
| 20 | out | out | ADP | _ | 19 burst | compound:prt |
| 21 | laughing | laugh | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 19 burst | xcomp |
| 22 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 30 fight | punct |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 scuffle | det |
| 24 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 25 scuffle | punct |
| 25 | scuffle | scuffle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 fight | nsubj |
| 26 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 25 scuffle | punct |
| 27 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 fight | cop |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 fight | det |
| 29 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 fight | amod |
| 30 | fight | fight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 means | parataxis |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 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 | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | crack up in a quote | past | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | mean | present | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 4 | burst out | infinitive | tree rules | ||||||
| 5 | laugh | gerund | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 6 | is a | present | a scuffle | a small fight | 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:everyday:449-stories-that-change.lesson:47.
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. 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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