Formal and informal: a mate versus the head teacher, sentence 1
Picture Ruby: to her mate she texts "omg skool was SO mid today 💀", and ten minutes later she emails the head: "Dear Mrs Patel, I think I left my coat in the hall.
Who acts: style, skool, I · What happens: text, be, email, think, leave · To what, where: mid today 💀, head, coat, hall · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Formal and informal: a mate versus the head teacher» 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 (style, skool, I), 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 | Picture | picture | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Ruby | compound |
| 2 | Ruby | ruby | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 2 Ruby | punct |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 mate | case |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 mate | nmod:poss |
| 6 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 texts | obl |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 texts | nsubj |
| 8 | texts | text | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 Ruby | parataxis |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 texts | punct |
| 10 | omg | omg | INTJ | _ | 16 💀 | discourse |
| 11 | skool | skool | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 💀 | nsubj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 💀 | cop |
| 13 | SO | so | ADV | _ | 14 mid | advmod |
| 14 | mid | mid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 💀 | amod |
| 15 | today | today | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 💀 | compound |
| 16 | 💀 | 💀 | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 texts | obj |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 texts | punct |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 emails | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 emails | cc |
| 20 | ten | ten | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 21 minutes | nummod |
| 21 | minutes | minute | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 later | obl:unmarked |
| 22 | later | late | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 24 emails | advmod |
| 23 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 emails | nsubj |
| 24 | emails | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 texts | conj | |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 head | det |
| 26 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 emails | obj |
| 27 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 24 emails | punct |
| 28 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 31 Patel | punct |
| 29 | Dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 Patel | amod |
| 30 | Mrs | Mrs | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 Patel | compound |
| 31 | Patel | Patel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 emails | vocative |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 think | punct |
| 33 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 34 think | nsubj |
| 34 | think | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 emails | parataxis |
| 35 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 36 left | nsubj |
| 36 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 think | ccomp |
| 37 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 38 coat | nmod:poss |
| 38 | coat | coat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 left | obj |
| 39 | in | in | ADP | _ | 41 hall | case |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 hall | det |
| 41 | hall | hall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 left | obl |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Picture | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- other
- voice
- character
- polarity
- none
- hedged
- yes
- teacher
- changed form=decl, act=other, polarity=none
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | text | present | style | to style's mate | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | past | skool | mid today 💀 | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | present | style | the head | Dear Mrs Patel vocative; late property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | think speech: other in a quote | present | I | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 5 | leave in a quote | past | I | my coat | the hall | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent coat=Theme in hall=Location |
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:016-formal-and-informal-a-mate-versus-the-head-teacher.lesson:1.
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): R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-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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