British and American words, sentence 15
Britain, Ireland and Australia say "maths"; the USA and Canada say "math"; both are short for "mathematics".
Who acts: Britain, USA, both · What happens: say, be · To what, where: maths, math · 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 (Britain, USA, 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 | Britain | Britain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 say | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 Ireland | punct |
| 3 | Ireland | Ireland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Britain | conj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 Australia | cc |
| 5 | Australia | Australia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Britain | conj |
| 6 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 maths | punct |
| 8 | maths | math | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 say | obj |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 maths | punct |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 say | punct |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 USA | det |
| 12 | USA | USA | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 say | nsubj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 Canada | cc |
| 14 | Canada | Canada | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 USA | conj |
| 15 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 say | parataxis |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 math | punct |
| 17 | math | math | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 say | obj |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 math | punct |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 short | punct |
| 20 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 22 short | nsubj |
| 21 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 short | cop |
| 22 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 say | ccomp |
| 23 | for | for | ADP | _ | 25 mathematics | case |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 25 mathematics | punct |
| 25 | mathematics | mathematics | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 short | obl |
| 26 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 25 mathematics | punct |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 say | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | Britain and Ireland and Australia | maths | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent math=Topic | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | infinitive | the USA and Canada | math | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent math=Topic | ||||
| 3 | is | present | both | for mathematics; short 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:021-british-and-american-words.lesson:15.
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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