Accents and dialects around the world, sentence 14

"I couldn't care less" and the American "I could care less" both mean "I don't care at all"; "couldn't" is the original and makes more sense, so use it in careful writing.

Who acts: millions, both · What happens: not care, care, mean, not be, make, use · To what, where: all, more sense, sense, careful writing · 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 (millions, both), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 care	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 care	nsubj
3	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 care	aux
4	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 care	advmod
5	care	care	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 original	parataxis
6	less	less	ADV	Degree=Cmp	5 care	advmod
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 care	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 American	cc
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 American	det
10	American	American	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 care	conj
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 care	punct
12	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 care	nsubj
13	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 care	aux
14	care	care	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 American	conj
15	less	less	ADV	Degree=Cmp	14 care	advmod
16	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 care	punct
17	both	both	PRON	PronType=Tot	18 mean	nsubj
18	mean	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 care	conj
19	"	"	PUNCT	_	23 care	punct
20	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 care	nsubj
21	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 care	aux
22	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	23 care	advmod
23	care	care	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 mean	ccomp
24	at	at	ADP	_	25 all	case
25	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	23 care	obl
26	"	"	PUNCT	_	23 care	punct
27	;	;	PUNCT	_	5 care	punct
28	"	"	PUNCT	_	29 could	punct
29	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 original	aux
30	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	34 original	advmod
31	"	"	PUNCT	_	30 n't	punct
32	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	34 original	cop
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 original	det
34	original	original	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 makes	cc
36	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	34 original	conj
37	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	38 sense	amod
38	sense	sense	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 makes	obj
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 use	punct
40	so	so	ADV	_	41 use	advmod
41	use	use	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	36 makes	parataxis
42	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 use	obj
43	in	in	ADP	_	45 writing	case
44	careful	careful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 writing	amod
45	writing	writing	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 use	obl
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	34 original	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not care in a quote	could	millions = million			less property	vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	care in a quote	could	millions = million			less property	vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	mean	present	both				vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	not care in a quote	present · do-support	millions = million		all		vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
5	not is	could				original property	tree rules
6	make	present		more sense			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset sense=Product
7	use	infinitive		sense	careful writing		vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient

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:14.

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): R6-punct-agree ×3. 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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