British and American words, sentence 9

A British "biscuit" is an American "cookie"; an American "biscuit" is a soft bread roll a bit like a scone.

Who acts: British biscuit, American biscuit · What happens: be · To what, where: American cookie, soft bread roll

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 (British biscuit, American biscuit), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 biscuit	det
2	British	British	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 biscuit	amod
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 biscuit	punct
4	biscuit	biscuit	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 cookie	nsubj
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 biscuit	punct
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 cookie	cop
7	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 cookie	det
8	American	American	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 cookie	amod
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 cookie	punct
10	cookie	cookie	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 roll	conj
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 cookie	punct
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 biscuit	punct
13	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 biscuit	det
14	American	American	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 biscuit	amod
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	16 biscuit	punct
16	biscuit	biscuit	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 roll	nsubj
17	"	"	PUNCT	_	16 biscuit	punct
18	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 roll	cop
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 roll	det
20	soft	soft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 roll	amod
21	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 roll	compound
22	roll	roll	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 bit	det
24	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 roll	conj
25	like	like	ADP	_	27 scone	case
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 scone	det
27	scone	scone	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 roll	nmod
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 cookie	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present	a British biscuit	a American cookie					tree rules
2	is a	present	a American biscuit	a soft bread roll and a American cookie and a bit				like a scone	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:9.

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 ×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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