Formal and informal: a mate versus the head teacher, sentence 7
Informal language is relaxed and chatty; formal language is careful and polite, used for teachers, strangers and official writing.
Who acts: Informal language, formal language · What happens: be, use · To what, where: formal language
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 (Informal language, formal language), 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 | Informal | informal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 language | amod |
| 2 | language | language | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 relaxed | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 relaxed | cop |
| 4 | relaxed | relaxed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 chatty | cc |
| 6 | chatty | chatty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 relaxed | conj |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 careful | punct |
| 8 | formal | formal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 language | amod |
| 9 | language | language | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 careful | nsubj |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 careful | cop |
| 11 | careful | careful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 relaxed | parataxis |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 polite | cc |
| 13 | polite | polite | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 careful | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 used | punct |
| 15 | used | use | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 language | acl |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 teachers | case |
| 17 | teachers | teacher | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 used | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 strangers | punct |
| 19 | strangers | stranger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 teachers | conj |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 writing | cc |
| 21 | official | official | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 writing | amod |
| 22 | writing | writing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 teachers | conj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 relaxed | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Informal language | relaxed property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | Informal language not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | is | present | formal language | careful property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | be | formal language not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 5 | use | participle | formal language not said here | for teachers and strangers and official writing | vn eat-39.1 «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:7.
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. 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.
See the release 0.4.
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