British and American words, sentence 2
Neither side is wrong: "colour" is right in Britain and "color" is right in America, just as "lift" and "elevator" are both proper words for the same machine.
Who acts: side, colour, color, lift · What happens: be · To what, where: Britain, America, proper words
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 (side, colour, color, lift), 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 | Neither | neither | DET | PronType=Neg | 2 side | det |
| 2 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 wrong | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 wrong | cop |
| 4 | wrong | wrong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 10 right | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 colour | punct |
| 7 | colour | colour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 right | nsubj |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 colour | punct |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 right | cop |
| 10 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 wrong | parataxis |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 Britain | case |
| 12 | Britain | Britain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 right | obl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 right | cc |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 color | punct |
| 15 | color | color | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 right | nsubj |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 color | punct |
| 17 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 right | cop |
| 18 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 right | conj |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 America | case |
| 20 | America | America | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 right | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 lift | punct |
| 22 | just | just | ADV | _ | 25 lift | advmod |
| 23 | as | as | ADP | _ | 25 lift | case |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 25 lift | punct |
| 25 | lift | lift | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 words | nsubj |
| 26 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 25 lift | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 elevator | cc |
| 28 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 29 elevator | punct |
| 29 | elevator | elevator | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 lift | conj |
| 30 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 29 elevator | punct |
| 31 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 34 words | cop |
| 32 | both | both | ADV | _ | 33 proper | advmod |
| 33 | proper | proper | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 words | amod |
| 34 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 right | parataxis |
| 35 | for | for | ADP | _ | 38 machine | case |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 machine | det |
| 37 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 machine | amod |
| 38 | machine | machine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 words | nmod |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 wrong | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- pos
- teacher
- changed polarity=pos
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | neither side | wrong property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | present | colour | Britain | right property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | is | present | color | America | right property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | is a | present | lift and elevator | proper words | for the same machine | 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:2.
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): no change. 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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