Accents and dialects around the world, sentence 6
In Australia "togs" means swimsuit, "thongs" means flip-flops and "arvo" means afternoon; in other countries "thongs" can mean something different, which causes funny mix-ups.
Who acts: togs, thongs, arvo · What happens: mean, cause · To what, where: swimsuit, flip flops, something, funny mix ups
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 (togs, thongs, arvo), 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 Australia | case |
| 2 | Australia | Australia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 means | obl |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 togs | punct |
| 4 | togs | tog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 means | nsubj |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 togs | punct |
| 6 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | swimsuit | swimsuit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 means | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 thongs | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 thongs | punct |
| 10 | thongs | thong | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 means | nsubj |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 thongs | punct |
| 12 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 means | conj |
| 13 | flip | flip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 flops | compound |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 flip | punct |
| 15 | flops | flop | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 means | obj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 means | cc |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 arvo | punct |
| 18 | arvo | arvo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 means | nsubj |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 arvo | punct |
| 20 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 means | conj |
| 21 | afternoon | afternoon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 means | obj |
| 22 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 30 mean | punct |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 countries | case |
| 24 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 countries | amod |
| 25 | countries | country | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 mean | obl |
| 26 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 27 thongs | punct |
| 27 | thongs | thong | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 mean | nsubj |
| 28 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 27 thongs | punct |
| 29 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 30 mean | aux |
| 30 | mean | mean | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 means | parataxis |
| 31 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 30 mean | obj |
| 32 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 something | amod |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 causes | punct |
| 34 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 35 causes | nsubj |
| 35 | causes | cause | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 something | acl:relcl |
| 36 | funny | funny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 ups | amod |
| 37 | mix | mix | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 ups | compound |
| 38 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 37 mix | punct |
| 39 | ups | up | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 causes | obj |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 means | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | togs | swimsuit | in Australia | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot swimsuit=Theme in australia=Attribute | |||
| 2 | mean | present | thongs | flip flops | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flop=Topic | ||||
| 3 | mean | present | arvo | afternoon | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | mean | can | thongs | something | in other countries | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot something=Theme in country=Attribute | |||
| 5 | cause | present | funny mix ups | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition up=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:6.
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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