Cousins: like a sister, posh, or far away, sentence 31
Cousins in different countries use different slang; asking what a word means is normal.
Who acts: Cousins, word, asking · What happens: use, ask, mean, be · To what, where: different slang · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Cousins: like a sister, posh, or far away» 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 (Cousins, word, asking), 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 | Cousins | cousin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 use | nsubj |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 countries | case |
| 3 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 countries | amod |
| 4 | countries | country | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Cousins | nmod |
| 5 | use | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 slang | amod |
| 7 | slang | slang | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 use | obj |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 9 asking | punct |
| 9 | asking | ask | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 normal | csubj |
| 10 | what | what | DET | PronType=Int | 12 word | det |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 word | det |
| 12 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 means | nsubj |
| 13 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 asking | ccomp |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 normal | cop |
| 15 | normal | normal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 use | parataxis |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 use | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | use | present | Cousins in different countries | different slang | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent slang=Patient | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | gerund | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 3 | mean | present | what word | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is | present | asking | normal 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:510-cousins-like-a-sister-posh-or-far-away.lesson:31.
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): no change. 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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