Formal and informal: a mate versus the head teacher, sentence 17
Filler words like um, like and you know are fine in casual talk; in formal talk, clear examples sound more confident.
Who acts: you, Filler words, clear examples · What happens: know, be, sound · To what, where: casual talk, formal talk
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 (you, Filler words, clear examples), 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 | Filler | filler | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 words | compound |
| 2 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 fine | nsubj |
| 3 | like | like | ADP | _ | 4 um | case |
| 4 | um | um | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 words | nmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 know | punct |
| 6 | like | like | INTJ | _ | 9 know | discourse |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 know | cc |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 know | nsubj |
| 9 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 words | parataxis |
| 10 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 fine | cop |
| 11 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 talk | case |
| 13 | casual | casual | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 talk | amod |
| 14 | talk | talk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 fine | obl |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 fine | punct |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 talk | case |
| 17 | formal | formal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 talk | amod |
| 18 | talk | talk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 sound | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 talk | punct |
| 20 | clear | clear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 examples | amod |
| 21 | examples | example | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 sound | nsubj |
| 22 | sound | sound | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 fine | parataxis |
| 23 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 24 confident | advmod |
| 24 | confident | confident | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 sound | xcomp |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 fine | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | present | you | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | is | present | Filler words like um | casual talk | fine property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | sound | present | clear examples | formal talk | confident property | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in talk=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:17.
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): no change. 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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