Weather and seasons, sentence 17
Slang here: "chucking it down" (UK) means raining hard; "dreich" (Scotland) means grey, damp and gloomy; "mental" (Scotland) means crazy; "wicked" (Boston) means very; "mate" means friend.
Who acts: UK, dreich, mental, Boston, mate · What happens: chuck down, mean, rain · To what, where: weather, friend · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Weather and seasons» 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 (UK, dreich, mental, Boston), 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 | 12 means | dislocated |
| 2 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 1 Slang | advmod |
| 3 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 5 chucking | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 chucking | punct |
| 5 | chucking | chuck | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 1 Slang | advcl |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 chucking | obj |
| 7 | down | down | ADP | _ | 5 chucking | compound:prt |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 chucking | punct |
| 9 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 10 UK | punct |
| 10 | UK | UK | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 means | nsubj |
| 11 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 10 UK | punct |
| 12 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 44 means | conj |
| 13 | raining | rain | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 means | xcomp |
| 14 | hard | hard | ADV | Degree=Pos | 13 raining | advmod |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 means | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 dreich | punct |
| 17 | dreich | dreich | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 means | nsubj |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 dreich | punct |
| 19 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 20 Scotland | punct |
| 20 | Scotland | Scotland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 dreich | appos |
| 21 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 20 Scotland | punct |
| 22 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 means | conj |
| 23 | grey | grey | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 means | xcomp |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 damp | punct |
| 25 | damp | damp | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 grey | conj |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 gloomy | cc |
| 27 | gloomy | gloomy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 grey | conj |
| 28 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 30 mental | punct |
| 29 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 30 mental | punct |
| 30 | mental | mental | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 means | nsubj |
| 31 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 30 mental | punct |
| 32 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 33 Scotland | punct |
| 33 | Scotland | Scotland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 means | nsubj |
| 34 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 33 Scotland | punct |
| 35 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 means | parataxis |
| 36 | crazy | crazy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 means | xcomp |
| 37 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 39 wicked | punct |
| 38 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 39 wicked | punct |
| 39 | wicked | wicked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 means | conj |
| 40 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 39 wicked | punct |
| 41 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 42 Boston | punct |
| 42 | Boston | Boston | PROPN | Number=Sing | 44 means | nsubj |
| 43 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 42 Boston | punct |
| 44 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 45 | very | very | ADV | _ | 44 means | advmod |
| 46 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 50 means | punct |
| 47 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 48 mate | punct |
| 48 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 50 means | nsubj |
| 49 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 48 mate | punct |
| 50 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 44 means | ccomp |
| 51 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 50 means | obj |
| 52 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 44 means | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | chuck down in a quote | gerund | UK not said here | weather | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 2 | mean | present | UK | Slang dislocated | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | rain not said to happen | gerund | UK not said here | hard property | vn weather-57 «It V PP.theme» | ||||
| 4 | mean | present | dreich | grey property | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | mean | present | mental | crazy property | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 6 | mean | present | Boston | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 7 | mean | present | mate | friend | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent friend=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:013-weather-and-seasons.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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2. 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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