Nice alone, mean in a group, sentence 6
«It's just banter, innit,» he says afterwards — banter means jokey teasing.
Who acts: audience, Sam, banter · What happens: be, say, mean · To what, where: banter, jokey teasing · 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 (audience, Sam, banter), 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 | _ | 11 says | punct |
| 2 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 banter | nsubj |
| 3 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 banter | cop |
| 4 | just | just | ADV | _ | 5 banter | advmod |
| 5 | banter | banter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 says | ccomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 innit | punct |
| 7 | innit | innit | INTJ | _ | 5 banter | discourse |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 banter | punct |
| 9 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 11 says | punct |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 says | nsubj |
| 11 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | afterwards | afterwards | ADV | _ | 11 says | advmod |
| 13 | — | — | PUNCT | _ | 11 says | punct |
| 14 | banter | banter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 means | nsubj |
| 15 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 says | ccomp |
| 16 | jokey | jokey | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 teasing | amod |
| 17 | teasing | tease | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 means | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 says | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | audience | banter | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | present | Sam | afterwards property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | mean | present | banter | jokey teasing | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tease=Topic |
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:6.
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 ×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.
See the release 0.4.
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