Colours, sentence 17
Slang here: "posh" (UK) means fancy; "like" at the end (Yorkshire) adds a shrug; "whit" (Scotland) means what; "gonna" means going to; "loses it" means laughs a lot; "eh" (Canada) asks you to agree; "sweet as" (New Zealand) means great; "wee" (Scotland) means small.
Who acts: posh, shrug, Scotland, gonna, eh, New Zealand · What happens: mean, add, go, lose, laugh, ask · To what, where: fancy, end, gonna, lot, you, small · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Colours» 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 (posh, shrug, Scotland, gonna), 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 | 46 means | dep |
| 2 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 1 Slang | advmod |
| 3 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 5 posh | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 posh | punct |
| 5 | posh | posh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 means | nsubj |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 posh | punct |
| 7 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 8 UK | punct |
| 8 | UK | UK | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 means | nsubj |
| 9 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 8 UK | punct |
| 10 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 46 means | parataxis |
| 11 | fancy | fancy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 means | obj |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 adds | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 like | punct |
| 14 | like | like | INTJ | _ | 22 adds | discourse |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 like | punct |
| 16 | at | at | ADP | _ | 18 end | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 end | det |
| 18 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 adds | obl |
| 19 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 20 Yorkshire | punct |
| 20 | Yorkshire | Yorkshire | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 end | appos |
| 21 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 20 Yorkshire | punct |
| 22 | adds | add | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 posh | conj |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 shrug | det |
| 24 | shrug | shrug | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 adds | obj |
| 25 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 27 whit | punct |
| 26 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 27 whit | punct |
| 27 | whit | whit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 shrug | appos |
| 28 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 27 whit | punct |
| 29 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 30 Scotland | punct |
| 30 | Scotland | Scotland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 means | nsubj |
| 31 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 30 Scotland | punct |
| 32 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 46 means | parataxis |
| 33 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 32 means | obj |
| 34 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 38 means | punct |
| 35 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 36 gonna | punct |
| 36 | gonna | gonna | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 means | nsubj |
| 37 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 36 gonna | punct |
| 38 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 46 means | parataxis |
| 39 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 38 means | xcomp |
| 40 | to | to | ADP | _ | 39 going | fixed |
| 41 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 43 loses | punct |
| 42 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 43 loses | punct |
| 43 | loses | lose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 46 means | nsubj |
| 44 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 43 loses | obj |
| 45 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 43 loses | punct |
| 46 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 47 | laughs | laugh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 46 means | ccomp |
| 48 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 49 lot | det |
| 49 | lot | lot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 laughs | obl:unmarked |
| 50 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 57 asks | punct |
| 51 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 52 eh | punct |
| 52 | eh | eh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 57 asks | nsubj |
| 53 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 52 eh | punct |
| 54 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 55 Canada | punct |
| 55 | Canada | Canada | PROPN | Number=Sing | 52 eh | appos |
| 56 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 55 Canada | punct |
| 57 | asks | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 46 means | conj |
| 58 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 57 asks | obj |
| 59 | to | to | PART | _ | 60 agree | mark |
| 60 | agree | agree | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 57 asks | xcomp |
| 61 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 63 sweet | punct |
| 62 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 63 sweet | punct |
| 63 | sweet | sweet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 46 means | parataxis |
| 64 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 70 means | mark |
| 65 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 70 means | punct |
| 66 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 68 Zealand | punct |
| 67 | New | New | PROPN | Number=Sing | 68 Zealand | flat |
| 68 | Zealand | Zealand | PROPN | Number=Sing | 70 means | nsubj |
| 69 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 68 Zealand | punct |
| 70 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 63 sweet | advcl |
| 71 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 70 means | xcomp |
| 72 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 79 means | punct |
| 73 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 74 wee | punct |
| 74 | wee | wee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 79 means | nsubj |
| 75 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 74 wee | punct |
| 76 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 77 Scotland | punct |
| 77 | Scotland | Scotland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 74 wee | appos |
| 78 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 77 Scotland | punct |
| 79 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 46 means | conj |
| 80 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 79 means | obj |
| 81 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 46 means | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed polarity=none
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | posh | fancy | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fancy=Topic | ||||
| 2 | add speech: assert | present | a shrug | at the end | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | mean | present | Scotland | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic | |||||
| 4 | mean | present | gonna | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | go not said to happen | gerund | gonna not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | lose in a quote | present | gonna | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality | |||||
| 7 | mean | present | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 8 | laugh | present | a lot | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 9 | ask speech: ask | present | eh | you | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 10 | agree speech: agree not said to happen | to-infinitive | eh not said here | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 11 | mean | present | New Zealand | great property | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 12 | mean | present | wee | small | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent small=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:009-colours.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): R7-rel-agree ×3, 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.
See the release 0.4.
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