Spelling traps: their, there, they're and friends, sentence 9
Lose (said with a z sound) means to not have something any more; loose means not tight.
Who acts: Lose, loose · What happens: say, mean, not have · To what, where: something · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Spelling traps: their, there, they're and friends» 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 (Lose, loose), 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 | Lose | lose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 means | nsubj |
| 2 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 1 Lose | parataxis |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 sound | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 sound | det |
| 6 | z | z | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sound | compound |
| 7 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 said | obl |
| 8 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
| 9 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 have | mark |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 have | advmod |
| 12 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 means | xcomp |
| 13 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 12 have | obj |
| 14 | any | any | ADV | _ | 15 more | advmod |
| 15 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 12 have | advmod |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 means | punct |
| 17 | loose | loose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 means | nsubj |
| 18 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 means | parataxis |
| 19 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 tight | advmod |
| 20 | tight | tight | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 means | ccomp |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 means | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | participle | with a z sound | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent with sound=Manner | |||||
| 2 | mean | present | Lose | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | not have not said to happen | to-infinitive | Lose not said here | something | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Patient | ||||
| 4 | mean | present | loose | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |
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:012-spelling-traps-their-there-theyre.lesson:9.
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, R7-rel-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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