Plurals that make no sense: mice, sheep and geese, sentence 15

In the west of Scotland weans are children, and bairns are children in Scotland and the North East of England; "baltic" is Scottish slang for freezing cold, and "oot" means out.

Who acts: weans, bairns, baltic, Scottish slang, oot · What happens: be, freeze, mean · To what, where: children, west, Scotland, Scottish slang

This is a sentence of the lesson «Plurals that make no sense: mice, sheep and geese» 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 (weans, bairns, baltic, Scottish slang), 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 west	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 west	det
3	west	west	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 children	obl
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 Scotland	case
5	Scotland	Scotland	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 west	nmod
6	weans	wean	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 children	nsubj
7	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 children	cop
8	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 children	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 children	cc
11	bairns	bairn	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 children	nsubj
12	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 children	cop
13	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 children	conj
14	in	in	ADP	_	15 Scotland	case
15	Scotland	Scotland	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 children	nmod
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 East	cc
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 East	det
18	North	North	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 East	compound
19	East	East	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 Scotland	conj
20	of	of	ADP	_	21 England	case
21	England	England	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 East	nmod
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 slang	punct
23	"	"	PUNCT	_	24 baltic	punct
24	baltic	baltic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 slang	nsubj
25	"	"	PUNCT	_	24 baltic	punct
26	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 slang	cop
27	Scottish	Scottish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 slang	amod
28	slang	slang	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 children	parataxis
29	for	for	SCONJ	_	30 freezing	mark
30	freezing	freeze	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	28 slang	acl
31	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 freezing	xcomp
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 means	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 means	cc
34	"	"	PUNCT	_	35 oot	punct
35	oot	oot	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 means	nsubj
36	"	"	PUNCT	_	35 oot	punct
37	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 children	parataxis
38	out	out	ADV	_	37 means	obj
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 children	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed polarity=none

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	present	weans	children and children	the west of Scotland		tree rules
2	is a	present	bairns	children	Scotland and the North East of England		tree rules
3	is a	present	baltic	Scottish slang			tree rules
4	freeze	gerund	Scottish slang not said here			cold property	vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
5	mean	present	oot				vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent out=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:010-plurals-mice-sheep-and-geese.lesson:15.

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. 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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