Nouns: the names of things, people, places and ideas, sentence 19
In north-west England a butty is a sandwich, and "our kid" means my brother or sister, or a close mate.
Who acts: kid · What happens: be, mean · To what, where: sandwich, west England, brother
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 (kid), 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 | _ | 5 England | case |
| 2 | north | north | ADV | _ | 4 west | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 west | punct |
| 4 | west | West | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 England | compound |
| 5 | England | England | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 sandwich | obl |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 butty | det |
| 7 | butty | butty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 England | nsubj |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 sandwich | cop |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 sandwich | det |
| 10 | sandwich | sandwich | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 means | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 means | cc |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 kid | punct |
| 14 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 kid | nmod:poss |
| 15 | kid | kid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 means | nsubj |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 kid | punct |
| 17 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 sandwich | conj |
| 18 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 brother | nmod:poss |
| 19 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 means | obj |
| 20 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 21 sister | cc |
| 21 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 brother | conj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 mate | punct |
| 23 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 26 mate | cc |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 mate | det |
| 25 | close | close | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 mate | amod |
| 26 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 brother | conj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 sandwich | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | a sandwich | west England | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | mean | present | our kid | my brother or sister or a close mate | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brother=Topic |
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:19.
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): 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.
See the release 0.4.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/2-nouns-names-of-things-people-places-ideas/19/