Punctuation that changes meaning, sentence 18
In the North East of England "pet" is a friendly word, like dear or love.
Who acts: pet · What happens: be · To what, where: friendly word, North East
This is a sentence of the lesson «Punctuation that changes meaning» 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 (pet), 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 | _ | 4 East | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 East | det |
| 3 | North | North | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 East | compound |
| 4 | East | East | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 word | obl |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 England | case |
| 6 | England | England | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 East | nmod |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 pet | punct |
| 8 | pet | pet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 word | nsubj |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 pet | punct |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 word | cop |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 word | det |
| 12 | friendly | friendly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 word | amod |
| 13 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 love | punct |
| 15 | like | like | ADP | _ | 18 love | case |
| 16 | dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 love | amod |
| 17 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 18 love | cc |
| 18 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 word | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 word | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | pet | a friendly word | the North East of England | like dear love | tree rules |
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:014-punctuation-that-changes-meaning.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. 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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