Accents and dialects around the world, sentence 5

In Pittsburgh "yinz" means you all; a fizzy drink is "pop" in much of the Midwest, "soda" in the Northeast and California, and sometimes "coke" in parts of the South.

Who acts: yinz, fizzy drink · What happens: mean, be · To what, where: you, Pittsburgh, pop, much · 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 (yinz, fizzy drink), 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	In	in	ADP	_	2 Pittsburgh	case
2	Pittsburgh	Pittsburgh	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 means	obl
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 yinz	punct
4	yinz	yinz	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 means	nsubj
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 yinz	punct
6	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 means	obj
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 you	nmod:unmarked
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 pop	punct
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 drink	det
11	fizzy	fizzy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 drink	amod
12	drink	drink	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 pop	nsubj
13	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 pop	cop
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	15 pop	punct
15	pop	pop	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 means	parataxis
16	"	"	PUNCT	_	15 pop	punct
17	in	in	ADP	_	18 much	case
18	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 pop	obl
19	of	of	ADP	_	21 Midwest	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 Midwest	det
21	Midwest	Midwest	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 much	nmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 soda	punct
23	"	"	PUNCT	_	24 soda	punct
24	soda	soda	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 pop	conj
25	"	"	PUNCT	_	24 soda	punct
26	in	in	ADP	_	28 Northeast	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 Northeast	det
28	Northeast	northeast	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 soda	nmod
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 California	cc
30	California	California	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 Northeast	conj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 coke	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 coke	cc
33	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	35 coke	advmod
34	"	"	PUNCT	_	35 coke	punct
35	coke	coke	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 means	conj
36	"	"	PUNCT	_	35 coke	punct
37	in	in	ADP	_	38 parts	case
38	parts	part	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 coke	nmod
39	of	of	ADP	_	41 South	case
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 South	det
41	South	South	PROPN	Number=Sing	38 parts	nmod
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 means	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present	yinz	you		Pittsburgh			tree rules
2	is a in a quote	present	a fizzy drink	pop and soda in the Northeast and California		much of the Midwest			tree rules

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:5.

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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2. 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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