British and American words, sentence 16

In America the "first floor" is the floor at street level; in Britain that is the "ground floor", and the British "first floor" is one floor up.

Who acts: first floor, that, floor · What happens: be · To what, where: floor, street level, ground floor, Britain, America · 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 (first floor, that, floor), 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	_	2 America	case
2	America	America	PROPN	Number=Sing	35 up	obl
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 floor	det
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 floor	punct
5	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	6 floor	amod
6	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 floor	nsubj
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 floor	punct
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 floor	cop
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 floor	det
10	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 up	nsubj
11	at	at	ADP	_	13 level	case
12	street	street	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 level	compound
13	level	level	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 floor	nmod
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 floor	punct
15	in	in	ADP	_	16 Britain	case
16	Britain	Britain	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 floor	obl
17	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 floor	nsubj
18	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 floor	cop
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 floor	det
20	"	"	PUNCT	_	22 floor	punct
21	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 floor	compound
22	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 floor	parataxis
23	"	"	PUNCT	_	22 floor	punct
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 floor	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 floor	cc
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 floor	det
27	British	British	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 floor	amod
28	"	"	PUNCT	_	30 floor	punct
29	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	30 floor	amod
30	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 floor	parataxis
31	"	"	PUNCT	_	30 floor	punct
32	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	35 up	cop
33	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	34 floor	nummod
34	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 up	obl:unmarked
35	up	up	ADV	_	root	root
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	35 up	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the first floor	the floor	street level		tree rules
2	is a in a quote	present	that	the ground floor	Britain		tree rules
3	is	present	the floor		America	one floor obl:unmarked; up 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:16.

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 ×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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