Too many details, too few, sentence 47

«Like» at the end of a sentence (Scotland, North England) softens it; «pants» in Britain are underpants; «mint» (UK) means great; a «bloke» is a man.

Who acts: pants, mint, bloke · What happens: soften, be, mean · To what, where: sentence, end, underpants, Britain, man

This is a sentence of the lesson «Too many details, too few» 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 (pants, mint, bloke), 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	_	16 softens	punct
2	Like	like	ADP	_	16 softens	obl
3	»	»	PUNCT	_	2 Like	punct
4	at	at	ADP	_	6 end	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 end	det
6	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 softens	obl
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 sentence	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 sentence	det
9	sentence	sentence	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 end	nmod
10	(	(	PUNCT	_	11 Scotland	punct
11	Scotland	Scotland	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 sentence	appos
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 England	punct
13	North	North	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 England	compound
14	England	England	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 Scotland	nmod:unmarked
15	)	)	PUNCT	_	11 Scotland	punct
16	softens	soften	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 softens	obj
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 pants	punct
19	«	«	PUNCT	_	20 pants	punct
20	pants	pants	NOUN	Number=Ptan	25 underpants	nsubj
21	»	»	PUNCT	_	20 pants	punct
22	in	in	ADP	_	23 Britain	case
23	Britain	Britain	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 underpants	obl
24	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 underpants	cop
25	underpants	underpant	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 softens	parataxis
26	;	;	PUNCT	_	29 »	punct
27	«	«	PUNCT	_	28 mint	punct
28	mint	mint	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 means	nsubj
29	»	»	PUNCT	_	28 mint	punct
30	(	(	PUNCT	_	31 UK	punct
31	UK	UK	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 mint	appos
32	)	)	PUNCT	_	31 UK	punct
33	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 underpants	parataxis
34	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 means	xcomp
35	;	;	PUNCT	_	38 bloke	punct
36	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	38 bloke	det
37	«	«	PUNCT	_	38 bloke	punct
38	bloke	bloke	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 man	nsubj
39	»	»	PUNCT	_	38 bloke	punct
40	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	42 man	cop
41	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	42 man	det
42	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 softens	parataxis
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 softens	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	soften	present		sentence		at the end of a sentence		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient
2	is a	present	pants	underpants	Britain			tree rules
3	mean	present	mint				great property	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
4	is a	present	a bloke	a man				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:450-too-many-details-too-few.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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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