Nouns: the names of things, people, places and ideas, sentence 17

With group nouns like team or family, British English often says "the team are" and American English usually says "the team is"; both are correct in their own country.

Who acts: British English, both · What happens: say, be · To what, where: own country · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Nouns: the names of things, people, places and ideas» 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 (British English, 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	With	with	ADP	_	3 nouns	case
2	group	group	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 nouns	compound
3	nouns	noun	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 says	obl
4	like	like	ADP	_	5 team	case
5	team	team	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 nouns	nmod
6	or	or	CCONJ	_	7 family	cc
7	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 team	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 nouns	punct
9	British	British	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 English	amod
10	English	English	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 says	nsubj
11	often	often	ADV	_	12 says	advmod
12	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	15 team	punct
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 team	det
15	team	team	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 are	nsubj
16	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 says	ccomp
17	"	"	PUNCT	_	16 are	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 English	cc
19	American	American	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 English	amod
20	English	English	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 team	conj
21	usually	usually	ADV	_	22 says	advmod
22	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 says	conj
23	"	"	PUNCT	_	31 correct	punct
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 team	det
25	team	team	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 is	nsubj
26	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 correct	cop
27	"	"	PUNCT	_	26 is	punct
28	;	;	PUNCT	_	31 correct	punct
29	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	31 correct	nsubj
30	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 correct	cop
31	correct	correct	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 says	conj
32	in	in	ADP	_	35 country	case
33	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 country	nmod:poss
34	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 country	amod
35	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 correct	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 says	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	British English		with group nouns like team or family; often property	vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent with noun=Manner
2	say speech: assert	present	British English not said here		usually property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	is	present	both	team's own country	correct property	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:002-nouns-names-of-things-people-places-ideas.lesson:17.

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): R5-strong ×3, R6-punct-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1. 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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