What language is: sounds, words and rules everyone shares, sentence 11
Slang is a real part of language with shared meanings: "bruv" is London slang for mate or brother, "fr" means for real, and "no cap" means no lie.
Who acts: Slang, bruv, fr, cap · What happens: be, share, mean · To what, where: real part, London slang, lie
This is a sentence of the lesson «What language is: sounds, words and rules everyone shares» of the language 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 (Slang, bruv, fr, cap), 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 | 5 part | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 part | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 part | det |
| 4 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 part | amod |
| 5 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 language | case |
| 7 | language | language | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 part | nmod |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 meanings | case |
| 9 | shared | share | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 meanings | amod |
| 10 | meanings | meaning | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 language | nmod |
| 11 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 13 bruv | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 bruv | punct |
| 13 | bruv | bruv | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 slang | nsubj |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 bruv | punct |
| 15 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 slang | cop |
| 16 | London | London | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 slang | compound |
| 17 | slang | slang | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 part | parataxis |
| 18 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 mate | case |
| 19 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 slang | nmod |
| 20 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 21 brother | cc |
| 21 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 mate | conj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 means | punct |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 24 fr | punct |
| 24 | fr | fr | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 means | nsubj |
| 25 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 24 fr | punct |
| 26 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 part | parataxis |
| 27 | for | for | ADP | _ | 28 real | case |
| 28 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 means | obl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 means | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 means | cc |
| 31 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 33 cap | punct |
| 32 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 33 cap | det |
| 33 | cap | cap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 means | nsubj |
| 34 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 33 cap | punct |
| 35 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 means | conj |
| 36 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 37 lie | det |
| 37 | lie | lie | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 means | obj |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 part | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Slang | a real part | of language with shared meanings | tree rules | |||
| 2 | share | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | is a | present | bruv | London slang | for mate or brother | tree rules | |||
| 4 | mean | present | fr | for real | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot for real=Attribute | ||||
| 5 | mean | present | no cap | no lie | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lie=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:language:001-what-language-is-sounds-words-and-rules.lesson:11.
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): R6-punct-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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