Accents and dialects around the world, sentence 7
In New Zealand "sweet as" means great or no problem, with nothing after "as", and "chur" means thanks or cool, influenced by Māori English.
Who acts: sweet, chur · What happens: mean, influence · To what, where: thanks
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 (sweet, chur), 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 | _ | 3 Zealand | case |
| 2 | New | New | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Zealand | flat |
| 3 | Zealand | Zealand | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 means | obl |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 Zealand | punct |
| 5 | sweet | sweet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 means | nsubj |
| 6 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 8 means | mark |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 means | punct |
| 8 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 means | xcomp |
| 10 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 12 problem | cc |
| 11 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 12 problem | det |
| 12 | problem | problem | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 great | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 nothing | punct |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 nothing | case |
| 15 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 8 means | obl |
| 16 | after | after | ADP | _ | 19 " | case |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 as | punct |
| 18 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 19 " | mark |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 nothing | punct |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 means | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 means | cc |
| 22 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 chur | punct |
| 23 | chur | chur | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 means | nsubj |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 chur | punct |
| 25 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 means | conj |
| 26 | thanks | thanks | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 means | obj |
| 27 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 28 cool | cc |
| 28 | cool | cool | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 thanks | conj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 influenced | punct |
| 30 | influenced | influence | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 26 thanks | acl |
| 31 | by | by | ADP | _ | 32 Māori | case |
| 32 | Māori | Māori | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 influenced | obl:agent |
| 33 | English | English | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 Māori | flat |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 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 | sweet | with nothing; in New Zealand; great property | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot in zealand=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | mean | present | chur | thanks | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thanks=Topic | ||||
| 3 | influence | participle | thanks not said here | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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:7.
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, R8-pos-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.
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