The new kid and the first day, sentence 31

Local slang can sound rude to a newcomer when it is meant friendly; ask or laugh along before deciding someone is an enemy.

Who acts: Local slang, someone · What happens: sound, mean, ask, laugh, decide, be · To what, where: slang, enemy · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «The new kid and the first day» 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 (Local slang, 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	Local	local	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 slang	amod
2	slang	slang	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sound	nsubj
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 sound	aux
4	sound	sound	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	rude	rude	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 sound	xcomp
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 newcomer	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 newcomer	det
8	newcomer	newcomer	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sound	obl
9	when	when	SCONJ	_	12 meant	mark
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 meant	nsubj:pass
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 meant	aux:pass
12	meant	mean	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 sound	advcl
13	friendly	friendly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 meant	xcomp
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 ask	punct
15	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 sound	parataxis
16	or	or	CCONJ	_	17 laugh	cc
17	laugh	laugh	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 ask	conj
18	along	along	ADV	_	17 laugh	advmod
19	before	before	SCONJ	_	20 deciding	mark
20	deciding	decide	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 laugh	advcl
21	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	24 enemy	nsubj
22	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 enemy	cop
23	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 enemy	det
24	enemy	enemy	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 deciding	ccomp
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 sound	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	sound	can	Local slang		to a newcomer; rude property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ PP.experiencer»: agent=Stimulus to newcomer=Experiencer
2	mean	present · passive		slang	friendly property	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic
3	ask speech: ask	infinitive				vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	laugh	infinitive			along property	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	decide	gerund				vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	is a	present	someone	a enemy		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:465-the-new-kid-and-the-first-day.lesson:31.

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, 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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