The new kid and the first day, sentence 38

In Liverpool «la» means lad; in Ireland «craic» means fun or news; in Australia «Pom» means an English person; «ta» is British for thanks.

Who acts: la, craic, Pom, ta · What happens: mean, be · To what, where: lad, fun, English person

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 (la, craic, Pom, ta), 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 means	obl
3	«	«	PUNCT	_	4 la	punct
4	la	la	X	_	6 means	nsubj
5	»	»	PUNCT	_	4 la	punct
6	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	lad	lad	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 means	obj
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 craic	punct
9	in	in	ADP	_	10 Ireland	case
10	Ireland	Ireland	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 means	obl
11	«	«	PUNCT	_	12 craic	punct
12	craic	craic	X	_	14 means	nsubj
13	»	»	PUNCT	_	12 craic	punct
14	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 means	conj
15	fun	fun	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 means	obj
16	or	or	CCONJ	_	17 news	cc
17	news	news	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 fun	conj
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 means	punct
19	in	in	ADP	_	20 Australia	case
20	Australia	Australia	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 means	obl
21	«	«	PUNCT	_	22 Pom	punct
22	Pom	pom	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 means	nsubj
23	»	»	PUNCT	_	22 Pom	punct
24	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 means	conj
25	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 person	det
26	English	English	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 person	amod
27	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 means	obj
28	;	;	PUNCT	_	33 British	punct
29	«	«	PUNCT	_	30 ta	punct
30	ta	ta	X	_	33 British	nsubj
31	»	»	PUNCT	_	30 ta	punct
32	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 British	cop
33	British	British	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 means	parataxis
34	for	for	ADP	_	35 thanks	case
35	thanks	thanks	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 British	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 means	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	mean	present	la	lad	in Liverpool	vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot lad=Theme in liverpool=Attribute
2	mean	present	craic	fun or news	in Ireland	vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot fun=Theme in ireland=Attribute
3	mean	present	Pom	a English person	in Australia	vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot person=Theme in australia=Attribute
4	is	present	ta		for thanks; british property	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:38.

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 ×3, R7-rel-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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