Nice alone, mean in a group, sentence 35

«Banter» is British for jokey teasing; in Scotland «pure sound» means really nice, a «nippy sweetie» is a sharp-tongued person, and «ken» means «you know».

Who acts: Banter, pure sound, nippy sweetie, ken, you · What happens: be, mean, know · To what, where: nice, tongued person · 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 (Banter, pure sound, nippy sweetie, ken), 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	_	2 Banter	punct
2	Banter	Banter	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 British	nsubj
3	»	»	PUNCT	_	2 Banter	punct
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 British	cop
5	British	British	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	for	for	ADP	_	8 teasing	case
7	jokey	jokey	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 teasing	amod
8	teasing	teasing	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 British	obl
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 means	punct
10	in	in	ADP	_	11 Scotland	case
11	Scotland	Scotland	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 means	obl
12	«	«	PUNCT	_	14 sound	punct
13	pure	pure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 sound	amod
14	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 means	nsubj
15	»	»	PUNCT	_	14 sound	punct
16	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 British	parataxis
17	really	really	ADV	_	18 nice	advmod
18	nice	nice	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 means	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 person	punct
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 sweetie	det
21	«	«	PUNCT	_	23 sweetie	punct
22	nippy	nippy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 sweetie	amod
23	sweetie	sweetie	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 person	nsubj
24	»	»	PUNCT	_	23 sweetie	punct
25	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 person	cop
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 person	det
27	sharp	sharp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 tongued	amod
28	-	-	PUNCT	_	27 sharp	punct
29	tongued	tongue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 person	amod
30	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 means	conj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 means	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 means	cc
33	«	«	PUNCT	_	34 ken	punct
34	ken	ken	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 means	nsubj
35	»	»	PUNCT	_	34 ken	punct
36	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 British	conj
37	«	«	PUNCT	_	39 know	punct
38	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	39 know	nsubj
39	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	36 means	ccomp
40	»	»	PUNCT	_	39 know	punct
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 British	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed act=assert, polarity=none

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	Banter		for jokey teasing; british property	tree rules
2	mean	present	pure sound	nice	in Scotland	vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot nice=Theme in scotland=Attribute
3	is a	present	a nippy sweetie	a tongued person		tree rules
4	mean	present	ken			vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	know in a quote	present	you			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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:35.

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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, 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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