Accents and dialects around the world, sentence 8

In South African English a "robot" is a traffic light, "lekker" means great or tasty (from Afrikaans), "now now" means soon and "just now" means some time later.

Who acts: robot, lekker · What happens: be, mean · To what, where: traffic light, South African English, great, Afrikaans · 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 (robot, lekker), 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	_	4 English	case
2	South	South	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 English	compound
3	African	African	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 English	amod
4	English	English	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 light	obl
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 robot	det
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 robot	punct
7	robot	robot	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 light	nsubj
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 robot	punct
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 light	cop
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 light	det
11	traffic	traffic	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 light	compound
12	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 light	punct
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	15 lekker	punct
15	lekker	lekker	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 means	nsubj
16	"	"	PUNCT	_	15 lekker	punct
17	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 light	parataxis
18	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 means	obj
19	or	or	CCONJ	_	20 tasty	cc
20	tasty	tasty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 great	conj
21	(	(	PUNCT	_	23 Afrikaans	punct
22	from	from	ADP	_	23 Afrikaans	case
23	Afrikaans	Afrikaans	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 means	obl
24	)	)	PUNCT	_	23 Afrikaans	punct
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 Afrikaans	punct
26	"	"	PUNCT	_	23 Afrikaans	punct
27	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	30 means	advmod
28	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	30 means	advmod
29	"	"	PUNCT	_	28 now	punct
30	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 means	ccomp
31	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	30 means	advmod
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 means	cc
33	"	"	PUNCT	_	35 now	punct
34	just	just	ADV	_	35 now	advmod
35	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	37 means	advmod
36	"	"	PUNCT	_	35 now	punct
37	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 means	conj
38	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	39 time	det
39	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 later	obl:unmarked
40	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	37 means	advmod
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 light	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	a robot	a traffic light	South African English			tree rules
2	mean	present	lekker	great	Afrikaans			tree rules
3	mean	present				now; now	soon property	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
4	mean	present				now	late property	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: 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:8.

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): R1-cc-next ×2, R6-punct-agree ×2, 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.

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