British and American words, sentence 6

In America "pants" means trousers; in Britain "pants" means underwear, so an American praising your "pants" means your trousers.

Who acts: pants, American · What happens: mean, praise · To what, where: trousers, underwear, pants

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 (pants, American), 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	6 means	obl
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 pants	punct
4	pants	pants	NOUN	Number=Ptan	6 means	nsubj
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 pants	punct
6	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	trousers	trousers	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 means	obj
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	10 Britain	punct
9	in	in	ADP	_	10 Britain	case
10	Britain	Britain	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 means	obl
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 pants	punct
12	pants	pants	NOUN	Number=Ptan	14 means	nsubj
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 pants	punct
14	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 means	parataxis
15	underwear	underwear	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 means	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 means	punct
17	so	so	ADV	_	25 means	advmod
18	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 American	det
19	American	American	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 means	nsubj
20	praising	praise	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	19 American	acl
21	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 pants	nmod:poss
22	"	"	PUNCT	_	23 pants	punct
23	pants	pants	NOUN	Number=Ptan	20 praising	obj
24	"	"	PUNCT	_	23 pants	punct
25	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 means	parataxis
26	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 trousers	nmod:poss
27	trousers	trousers	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 means	obj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 means	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	mean	present	pants	trousers	in America	vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot trousers=Theme in america=Attribute
2	mean	present	pants	underwear	in Britain	vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot underwear=Theme in britain=Attribute
3	praise	gerund		your pants		vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pants=Theme
4	mean	present	a American	your trousers		vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trousers=Topic

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:6.

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 ×3, 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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