Formal and informal: a mate versus the head teacher, sentence 11

Wagwan means what's going on, or hello; it came from Jamaican Creole into the speech of young Londoners; "fam" means a close friend.

Who acts: Wagwan, writing, fam · What happens: mean, go on, come, speak · To what, where: Jamaican Creole, close friend, young Londoners · 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 (Wagwan, writing, fam), 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	Wagwan	Wagwan	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 means	nsubj
2	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 going	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 going	aux
5	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 means	ccomp
6	on	on	ADP	_	5 going	compound:prt
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 hello	punct
8	or	or	CCONJ	_	9 hello	cc
9	hello	hello	INTJ	_	5 going	conj
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 came	punct
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 came	nsubj
12	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 means	parataxis
13	from	from	ADP	_	15 Creole	case
14	Jamaican	Jamaican	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 Creole	amod
15	Creole	Creole	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 came	obl
16	into	into	ADP	_	18 speech	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 speech	det
18	speech	speech	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 came	obl
19	of	of	ADP	_	21 Londoners	case
20	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 Londoners	amod
21	Londoners	londoner	PROPN	Number=Plur	18 speech	nmod
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 means	punct
23	"	"	PUNCT	_	24 fam	punct
24	fam	fam	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 means	nsubj
25	"	"	PUNCT	_	24 fam	punct
26	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 means	parataxis
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 friend	det
28	close	close	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 friend	amod
29	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 means	obj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 means	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	mean	present	Wagwan				vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	go on	present · progressive					vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	come	past	writing		Jamaican Creole	into the speech of young Londoners	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme from creole=Initial_Location into speech=Destination
4	mean	present	fam	a close friend			vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent friend=Topic
5	speak			young Londoners			nom speech «communication transitive»: of=patient

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: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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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