Formal and informal: a mate versus the head teacher, sentence 4

Formal doesn't mean long fancy words; it means clear, polite and calm, with full words, a greeting like "Dear" or "Hello", and a "thank you".

Who acts: Formal, coat · What happens: not mean, mean, thank · To what, where: long fancy words, you · 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 (Formal, coat), 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	Formal	formal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 mean	nsubj
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 mean	aux
3	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 mean	advmod
4	mean	mean	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 words	amod
6	fancy	fancy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 words	amod
7	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 mean	obj
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	10 means	punct
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 means	nsubj
10	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 mean	parataxis
11	clear	clear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 means	xcomp
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 polite	punct
13	polite	polite	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 clear	conj
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 calm	cc
15	calm	calm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 clear	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 words	punct
17	with	with	ADP	_	19 words	case
18	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 words	amod
19	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 means	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 greeting	punct
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 greeting	det
22	greeting	greeting	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 words	conj
23	like	like	ADP	_	25 Dear	case
24	"	"	PUNCT	_	25 Dear	punct
25	Dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 greeting	nmod
26	"	"	PUNCT	_	25 Dear	punct
27	or	or	CCONJ	_	29 Hello	cc
28	"	"	PUNCT	_	29 Hello	punct
29	Hello	hello	INTJ	_	25 Dear	conj
30	"	"	PUNCT	_	29 Hello	punct
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 a	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 a	cc
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 Hello	vocative
34	"	"	PUNCT	_	35 thank	punct
35	thank	thank	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 a	parataxis
36	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	35 thank	obj
37	"	"	PUNCT	_	35 thank	punct
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 mean	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed act=assert

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	not mean	present · do-support	Formal	long fancy words			vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Topic
2	mean	present	coat			with full words and a greeting like Dear; clear property	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
3	thank speech: thank in a quote	present			you		vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme

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:4.

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 ×3, 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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