Formal and informal: a mate versus the head teacher, sentence 8
A register is the style of language you choose for a situation.
Who acts: register, you · What happens: be, choose · To what, where: style, 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 (register, you), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 register | det |
| 2 | register | register | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 style | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 style | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 style | det |
| 5 | style | style | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 language | case |
| 7 | language | language | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 style | nmod |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 choose | nsubj |
| 9 | choose | choose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 language | acl:relcl |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 situation | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 situation | det |
| 12 | situation | situation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 choose | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 style | 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 | a register | the style | of language | tree rules | |||
| 2 | choose | present | you | language not said here | for a situation | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent language=Theme for situation=Beneficiary |
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:8.
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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