Nice alone, mean in a group, sentence 16
In Dundee, Lily's cousin says her friend Kirsty is «pure sound» on her own but «a right nippy sweetie» in a group.
Who acts: cousin, friend · What happens: say, be · To what, where: Dundee, pure sound, own · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Nice alone, mean in a group» 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 (cousin, friend), 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 Dundee | case |
| 2 | Dundee | Dundee | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 says | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Dundee | punct |
| 4 | Lily | Lily | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 cousin | nmod:poss |
| 5 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 4 Lily | case |
| 6 | cousin | cousin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 says | nsubj |
| 7 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 friend | nmod:poss |
| 9 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 sound | nsubj |
| 10 | Kirsty | Kirsty | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 friend | appos |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 sound | cop |
| 12 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 14 sound | punct |
| 13 | pure | pure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 sound | amod |
| 14 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 says | ccomp |
| 15 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 14 sound | punct |
| 16 | on | on | ADP | _ | 18 own | case |
| 17 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 own | nmod:poss |
| 18 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 sound | obl |
| 19 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 24 sweetie | cc |
| 20 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 24 sweetie | punct |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 sweetie | det |
| 22 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 sweetie | amod |
| 23 | nippy | nippy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 sweetie | amod |
| 24 | sweetie | sweetie | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 sound | conj |
| 25 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 24 sweetie | punct |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 group | case |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 group | det |
| 28 | group | group | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 sweetie | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 says | 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 | say speech: assert | present | Lily's cousin | Dundee | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent in dundee=Manner | ||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | Lily's friend | pure sound but a right nippy sweetie in a group | friend's own | 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:468-nice-alone-mean-in-a-group.lesson:16.
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. 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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