Accents and dialects around the world, sentence 1
The same word can mean different things in different countries: in Cape Town "Turn left at the robot" means at the traffic light, and in Sydney "Grab your togs and thongs" means your swimsuit and flip-flops.
Who acts: same word · What happens: mean, turn, grab · To what, where: different things, togs, swimsuit · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Accents and dialects around the world» 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 (same word), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 word | det |
| 2 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 word | amod |
| 3 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 mean | nsubj |
| 4 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 mean | aux |
| 5 | mean | mean | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 things | amod |
| 7 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 mean | obj |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 countries | case |
| 9 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 countries | amod |
| 10 | countries | country | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 mean | obl |
| 11 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 17 left | punct |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 Town | case |
| 13 | Cape | Cape | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Town | compound |
| 14 | Town | Town | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 means | obl |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 Turn | punct |
| 16 | Turn | Turn | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 22 means | csubj |
| 17 | left | left | ADV | _ | 16 Turn | advmod |
| 18 | at | at | ADP | _ | 20 robot | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 robot | det |
| 20 | robot | robot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 means | obl |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 robot | punct |
| 22 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 mean | parataxis |
| 23 | at | at | ADP | _ | 26 light | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 light | det |
| 25 | traffic | traffic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 light | compound |
| 26 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 means | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 means | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 means | cc |
| 29 | in | in | ADP | _ | 30 Sydney | case |
| 30 | Sydney | Sydney | PROPN | Number=Sing | 38 means | obl |
| 31 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 32 Grab | punct |
| 32 | Grab | grab | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 30 Sydney | parataxis |
| 33 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 togs | nmod:poss |
| 34 | togs | tog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 Grab | obj |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 thongs | cc |
| 36 | thongs | thong | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 togs | conj |
| 37 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 32 Grab | punct |
| 38 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 means | conj |
| 39 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 40 swimsuit | nmod:poss |
| 40 | swimsuit | swimsuit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 means | obj |
| 41 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 42 flip | cc |
| 42 | flip | flip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 swimsuit | conj |
| 43 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 42 flip | punct |
| 44 | flops | flop | NOUN | Number=Plur | 42 flip | flat |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 mean | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | can | the same word | different things | in different countries | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot thing=Theme in country=Attribute | |||
| 2 | turn in a quote | infinitive | left property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | mean | present | at the robot; at the traffic light; in Cape Town | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot in town=Attribute | |||||
| 4 | grab in a quote | infinitive | your togs and thongs | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tog=Theme | |||||
| 5 | mean | present | your swimsuit and flip | in Sydney | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot swimsuit=Theme in sydney=Attribute |
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:019-accents-and-dialects-around-the-world.lesson:1.
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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×2, 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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