Dates and birthdays, sentence 17
Slang here: "bro" means mate; "mint" (North of England) means great; "our kid" (Liverpool) means my brother; "grand" (Ireland) means fine or good; "eh" (Canada) asks you to agree; "proper job" (West Country) means great; "posh" means fancy.
Who acts: bro, mint, kid, grand, eh, proper job · What happens: mean, ask, agree · To what, where: mate, brother, you, fancy
This is a sentence of the lesson «Dates and birthdays» of the french 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 (bro, mint, kid, grand), 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 | Slang | slang | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 1 Slang | advmod |
| 3 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 7 means | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 bro | punct |
| 5 | bro | bro | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 means | nsubj |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 bro | punct |
| 7 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Slang | ccomp |
| 8 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 means | obj |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 mint | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 mint | punct |
| 11 | mint | mint | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 means | nsubj |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 mint | punct |
| 13 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 14 North | punct |
| 14 | North | North | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 mint | appos |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 England | case |
| 16 | England | England | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 North | nmod |
| 17 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 14 North | punct |
| 18 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 means | parataxis |
| 19 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 means | xcomp |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 28 means | punct |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 kid | punct |
| 22 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 kid | nmod:poss |
| 23 | kid | kid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 means | nsubj |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 kid | punct |
| 25 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 26 Liverpool | punct |
| 26 | Liverpool | Liverpool | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 kid | appos |
| 27 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 26 Liverpool | punct |
| 28 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 means | parataxis |
| 29 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 brother | nmod:poss |
| 30 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 means | obj |
| 31 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 38 means | punct |
| 32 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 33 grand | punct |
| 33 | grand | grand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 means | nsubj |
| 34 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 33 grand | punct |
| 35 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 36 Ireland | punct |
| 36 | Ireland | Ireland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 grand | appos |
| 37 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 36 Ireland | punct |
| 38 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 means | parataxis |
| 39 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 means | conj |
| 40 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 41 good | cc |
| 41 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 fine | conj |
| 42 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 44 eh | punct |
| 43 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 44 eh | punct |
| 44 | eh | eh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 49 asks | nsubj |
| 45 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 44 eh | punct |
| 46 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 47 Canada | punct |
| 47 | Canada | Canada | PROPN | Number=Sing | 49 asks | nsubj |
| 48 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 47 Canada | punct |
| 49 | asks | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 38 means | conj |
| 50 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 49 asks | obj |
| 51 | to | to | PART | _ | 52 agree | mark |
| 52 | agree | agree | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 49 asks | xcomp |
| 53 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 62 means | punct |
| 54 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 56 job | punct |
| 55 | proper | proper | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 56 job | amod |
| 56 | job | job | NOUN | Number=Sing | 62 means | nsubj |
| 57 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 56 job | punct |
| 58 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 60 Country | punct |
| 59 | West | West | PROPN | Number=Sing | 60 Country | compound |
| 60 | Country | Country | PROPN | Number=Sing | 56 job | appos |
| 61 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 60 Country | punct |
| 62 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 means | parataxis |
| 63 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 62 means | xcomp |
| 64 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 68 means | punct |
| 65 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 66 posh | punct |
| 66 | posh | posh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 68 means | nsubj |
| 67 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 66 posh | punct |
| 68 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 62 means | parataxis |
| 69 | fancy | fancy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 68 means | obj |
| 70 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Slang | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- pos
- teacher
- changed act=assert
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | bro | mate | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mate=Topic | ||||
| 2 | mean | present | mint | great property | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | mean | present | our kid | my brother | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brother=Topic | ||||
| 4 | mean | present | grand | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | ask speech: ask | present | eh | you | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 6 | agree speech: agree not said to happen | to-infinitive | eh not said here | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 7 | mean | present | proper job | great property | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 8 | mean | present | posh | fancy | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fancy=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:french:011-dates-and-birthdays.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 ×4, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-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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