Tu or vous? Manners in French, sentence 18

Slang here: "my lover" (West Country) is a friendly way to call someone dear; "lowkey" means a bit, secretly; "bruv" means mate; "thanks heaps" (Australia) means thanks a lot; "like" at the end of a Belfast question just adds a friendly tone.

Who acts: lover, lowkey, bruv, thanks heaps, friendly tone · What happens: be, call, mean, add · To what, where: friendly way, someone, bit, mate, end · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Tu or vous? Manners in French» 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 (lover, lowkey, bruv, thanks heaps), 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	_	6 lover	punct
5	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 lover	nmod:poss
6	lover	lover	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 way	nsubj
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 lover	punct
8	(	(	PUNCT	_	10 Country	punct
9	West	West	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 Country	compound
10	Country	Country	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 lover	appos
11	)	)	PUNCT	_	10 Country	punct
12	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 way	cop
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 way	det
14	friendly	friendly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 way	amod
15	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Slang	parataxis
16	to	to	PART	_	17 call	mark
17	call	call	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 way	acl
18	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	17 call	obj
19	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 call	xcomp
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 means	punct
21	"	"	PUNCT	_	22 lowkey	punct
22	lowkey	lowkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 means	nsubj
23	"	"	PUNCT	_	22 lowkey	punct
24	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Slang	parataxis
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 bit	det
26	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 means	obj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 secretly	punct
28	secretly	secretly	ADV	_	24 means	advmod
29	;	;	PUNCT	_	33 means	punct
30	"	"	PUNCT	_	31 bruv	punct
31	bruv	bruv	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 means	nsubj
32	"	"	PUNCT	_	31 bruv	punct
33	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 means	parataxis
34	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 means	obj
35	;	;	PUNCT	_	43 means	punct
36	"	"	PUNCT	_	38 heaps	punct
37	thanks	thanks	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 heaps	compound
38	heaps	heap	NOUN	Number=Plur	43 means	nsubj
39	"	"	PUNCT	_	38 heaps	punct
40	(	(	PUNCT	_	41 Australia	punct
41	Australia	Australia	PROPN	Number=Sing	38 heaps	appos
42	)	)	PUNCT	_	41 Australia	punct
43	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 means	conj
44	thanks	thanks	ADP	_	46 lot	case
45	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	46 lot	det
46	lot	lot	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 means	obl
47	;	;	PUNCT	_	59 adds	punct
48	"	"	PUNCT	_	49 like	punct
49	like	like	INTJ	_	59 adds	discourse
50	"	"	PUNCT	_	49 like	punct
51	at	at	ADP	_	53 end	case
52	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	53 end	det
53	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	59 adds	obl
54	of	of	ADP	_	57 question	case
55	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	57 question	det
56	Belfast	Belfast	PROPN	Number=Sing	57 question	compound
57	question	question	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 end	nmod
58	just	just	ADV	_	59 adds	advmod
59	adds	add	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 means	conj
60	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	62 tone	det
61	friendly	friendly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	62 tone	amod
62	tone	tone	NOUN	Number=Sing	59 adds	obj
63	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Slang	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	my lover	a friendly way				tree rules
2	call	to-infinitive			someone		dear property	vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent someone=Recipient
3	mean	present	lowkey	a bit			secretly property	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bit=Topic
4	mean	present	bruv	mate				vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mate=Topic
5	mean	present	thanks heaps				thanks a lot	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
6	add speech: assert	present	a friendly tone			at the end of a Belfast question		vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient

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:005-tu-or-vous-manners-in-french.lesson:18.

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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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