Formal and informal: a mate versus the head teacher, sentence 15

School reports use formal words: "conscientious" means careful and hard-working, and "contributes enthusiastically" means joins in with energy.

Who acts: School reports, conscientious · What happens: use, mean, work, contribute, join in · To what, where: formal words · 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 (School reports, conscientious), 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	School	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 reports	compound
2	reports	report	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 use	nsubj
3	use	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	formal	formal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 words	amod
5	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 use	obj
6	:	:	PUNCT	_	10 means	punct
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 conscientious	punct
8	conscientious	conscientious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 means	nsubj
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 conscientious	punct
10	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 use	parataxis
11	careful	careful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 means	xcomp
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 working	cc
13	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 working	amod
14	-	-	PUNCT	_	13 hard	punct
15	working	work	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 careful	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 contributes	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 contributes	cc
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	19 contributes	punct
19	contributes	contribute	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 means	nsubj
20	enthusiastically	enthusiastically	ADV	_	19 contributes	advmod
21	"	"	PUNCT	_	19 contributes	punct
22	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 use	parataxis
23	joins	join	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 means	ccomp
24	in	in	ADP	_	23 joins	compound:prt
25	with	with	ADP	_	26 energy	case
26	energy	energy	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 joins	obl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 use	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	use	present	School reports	formal words		vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Patient
2	mean	present	conscientious		careful property	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
3	work	gerund	conscientious not said here			vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	contribute in a quote	present			enthusiastically property	vn contribute-13.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	mean	present				vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	join in	present			with energy	vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Patient with energy=Co-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: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, 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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