British and American words, sentence 13
The letter Z is "zed" in Britain, Ireland, Canada, Australia and most English-speaking places, and "zee" in the USA.
Who acts: letter · What happens: be, speak · To what, where: zed, Britain · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «British and American words» 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 (letter), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 zed | det |
| 2 | letter | letter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 zed | nsubj |
| 3 | Z | z | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 letter | appos |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 zed | cop |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 zed | punct |
| 6 | zed | zed | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 zed | punct |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 Britain | case |
| 9 | Britain | Britain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 zed | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 Ireland | punct |
| 11 | Ireland | Ireland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Britain | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 Canada | punct |
| 13 | Canada | Canada | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Britain | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 Australia | punct |
| 15 | Australia | Australia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Britain | conj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 places | cc |
| 17 | most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 21 places | amod |
| 18 | English | English | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 places | compound |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 English | punct |
| 20 | speaking | speak | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 21 places | amod |
| 21 | places | place | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 zed | conj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 zee | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 zee | cc |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 25 zee | punct |
| 25 | zee | zee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 zed | conj |
| 26 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 25 zee | punct |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 USA | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 USA | det |
| 29 | USA | USA | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 zee | nmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 zed | 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 | is a in a quote | present | letter | the zed and most English speaking places and zee in the USA | Britain and Ireland and Canada and Australia | tree rules | |||
| 2 | speak speech: other | gerund | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: 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:021-british-and-american-words.lesson:13.
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): 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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