Nice alone, mean in a group, sentence 17
In Scots «pure sound» means really nice and a «nippy sweetie» is someone sharp-tongued.
Who acts: pure sound, « sweetie » · What happens: mean, be · To what, where: someone
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 (pure sound, « sweetie »), 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 Scots | case |
| 2 | Scots | Scot | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 means | obl |
| 3 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 5 sound | punct |
| 4 | pure | pure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 sound | amod |
| 5 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 means | nsubj |
| 6 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 5 sound | punct |
| 7 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | really | really | ADV | _ | 9 nice | advmod |
| 9 | nice | nice | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 means | xcomp |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 someone | cc |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 sweetie | det |
| 12 | « | « | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 » | amod |
| 13 | nippy | nippy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 sweetie | amod |
| 14 | sweetie | sweetie | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 » | compound |
| 15 | » | » | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 someone | nsubj |
| 16 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 someone | cop |
| 17 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 7 means | conj |
| 18 | sharp | sharp | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 tongued | compound |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 sharp | punct |
| 20 | tongued | tongue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 someone | amod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 means | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- pos
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | pure sound | in Scots; nice property | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot in scot=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | « sweetie » | someone | 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:17.
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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×3. 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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