Accents: é, è, ê, ç and friends, sentence 19
Slang here: "boss" (Liverpool) means great; "wee" (Scotland) means small; "heaps" (Australia) means very; "lush" (Wales) means lovely; "peng" (London) means great-looking; "them accents is" is broken grammar for "those accents are".
Who acts: boss, wee, heaps, lush, peng · What happens: mean, look, break, be · To what, where: great, grammar · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Accents: é, è, ê, ç and friends» 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 (boss, wee, heaps, lush), 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 | _ | 1 Slang | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 boss | punct |
| 5 | boss | boss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 means | nsubj |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 boss | punct |
| 7 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 8 Liverpool | punct |
| 8 | Liverpool | Liverpool | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 boss | appos |
| 9 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 8 Liverpool | punct |
| 10 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Slang | parataxis |
| 11 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 means | obj |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 wee | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 wee | punct |
| 14 | wee | wee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 means | nsubj |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 wee | punct |
| 16 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 17 Scotland | punct |
| 17 | Scotland | Scotland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 means | nsubj |
| 18 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 17 Scotland | punct |
| 19 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 means | conj |
| 20 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 means | xcomp |
| 21 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 28 means | punct |
| 22 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 heaps | punct |
| 23 | heaps | heap | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 means | nsubj |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 heaps | punct |
| 25 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 26 Australia | punct |
| 26 | Australia | Australia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 heaps | appos |
| 27 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 26 Australia | punct |
| 28 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 means | parataxis |
| 29 | very | very | ADV | _ | 28 means | advmod |
| 30 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 37 means | punct |
| 31 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 32 lush | punct |
| 32 | lush | lush | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 means | nsubj |
| 33 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 32 lush | punct |
| 34 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 35 Wales | punct |
| 35 | Wales | Wales | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 lush | appos |
| 36 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 35 Wales | punct |
| 37 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 means | parataxis |
| 38 | lovely | lovely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 means | xcomp |
| 39 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 41 peng | punct |
| 40 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 41 peng | punct |
| 41 | peng | peng | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 means | nsubj |
| 42 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 41 peng | punct |
| 43 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 44 London | punct |
| 44 | London | London | PROPN | Number=Sing | 41 peng | appos |
| 45 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 44 London | punct |
| 46 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 37 means | conj |
| 47 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 49 looking | amod |
| 48 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 47 great | punct |
| 49 | looking | look | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 46 means | ccomp |
| 50 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 57 broken | punct |
| 51 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 53 accents | punct |
| 52 | them | they | DET | PronType=Dem | 53 accents | det |
| 53 | accents | accent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 54 is | nsubj:pass |
| 54 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 57 broken | aux |
| 55 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 54 is | punct |
| 56 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 57 broken | aux:pass |
| 57 | broken | break | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Slang | parataxis |
| 58 | grammar | grammar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 57 broken | obj |
| 59 | for | for | ADP | _ | 62 accents | case |
| 60 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 62 accents | punct |
| 61 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 62 accents | det |
| 62 | accents | accent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 57 broken | obl |
| 63 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 62 accents | cop |
| 64 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 63 are | punct |
| 65 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Slang | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | boss | great | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent great=Topic | ||||
| 2 | mean | present | wee | small property | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | mean | present | heaps | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | mean | present | lush | lovely property | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | mean | present | peng | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 6 | look | gerund | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||||
| 7 | break | present · passive | grammar | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: grammar=Patient | |||||
| 8 | is in a quote | present | for that accents | 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:french:003-accents-e-e-e-c-and-friends.lesson:19.
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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-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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