Formal and informal: a mate versus the head teacher, sentence 18
In the West Country "my lover" is a friendly greeting to anyone, like "love" or "mate", and "proper job" means well done or great.
Who acts: lover, proper job · What happens: be, mean, do · To what, where: friendly greeting, West Country
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 (lover, proper job), 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 Country | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Country | det |
| 3 | West | West | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Country | compound |
| 4 | Country | Country | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 greeting | obl |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 greeting | punct |
| 6 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 lover | nmod:poss |
| 7 | lover | lover | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 greeting | nsubj |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 lover | punct |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 greeting | cop |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 greeting | det |
| 11 | friendly | friendly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 greeting | amod |
| 12 | greeting | greeting | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 anyone | case |
| 14 | anyone | anyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 12 greeting | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 love | punct |
| 16 | like | like | ADP | _ | 18 love | case |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 love | punct |
| 18 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 greeting | parataxis |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 love | punct |
| 20 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 22 mate | cc |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 mate | punct |
| 22 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 love | conj |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 mate | punct |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 means | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 means | cc |
| 26 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 28 job | punct |
| 27 | proper | proper | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 job | amod |
| 28 | job | job | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 means | nsubj |
| 29 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 28 job | punct |
| 30 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 greeting | conj |
| 31 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 32 done | advmod |
| 32 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 30 means | xcomp |
| 33 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 34 great | cc |
| 34 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 done | conj |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 greeting | 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 | my lover | a friendly greeting | the West Country | to anyone | tree rules | ||
| 2 | mean | present | proper job | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | do not said to happen | participle | proper job not said here | well property | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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: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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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