British and American words, sentence 3

Some "American" words are really old British ones: "fall" for autumn and "soccer" for football both started in England and simply stayed alive across the ocean.

Who acts: American words, old British ones · What happens: be, start, stay · To what, where: old British ones, England, ocean

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 (American words, old British ones), 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	Some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	5 words	det
2	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 American	punct
3	American	American	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 words	amod
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 American	punct
5	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 ones	nsubj
6	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 ones	cop
7	really	really	ADV	_	8 old	advmod
8	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 ones	amod
9	British	British	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 ones	amod
10	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 started	nsubj
11	:	:	PUNCT	_	13 fall	punct
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 fall	punct
13	fall	fall	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 ones	appos
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 fall	punct
15	for	for	ADP	_	16 autumn	case
16	autumn	autumn	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 fall	nmod
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 soccer	cc
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	19 soccer	punct
19	soccer	soccer	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 fall	conj
20	"	"	PUNCT	_	19 soccer	punct
21	for	for	ADP	_	22 football	case
22	football	football	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 soccer	nmod
23	both	both	CCONJ	_	24 started	cc:preconj
24	started	start	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
25	in	in	ADP	_	26 England	case
26	England	England	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 started	obl
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 stayed	cc
28	simply	simply	ADV	_	29 stayed	advmod
29	stayed	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 started	conj
30	alive	alive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 stayed	xcomp
31	across	across	ADP	_	33 ocean	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 ocean	det
33	ocean	ocean	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 stayed	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 ones	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	present	some American words	old British ones			tree rules
2	start	past	old British ones		England		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
3	stay	past	old British ones not said here		the ocean	alive, simply property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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:3.

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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-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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