Idioms taken literally, sentence 0
An idiom is a group of words whose meaning is not the meaning of its separate words; you have to learn it as one whole piece, like a key that opens one door.
Who acts: idiom, meaning, you, key · What happens: be, not be, have, learn, open, mean · To what, where: group, meaning, one door
This is a sentence of the lesson «Idioms taken literally» 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 (idiom, meaning, you, key), 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 | An | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 idiom | det |
| 2 | idiom | idiom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 group | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 group | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 group | det |
| 5 | group | group | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 words | case |
| 7 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 group | nmod |
| 8 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 9 meaning | nmod:poss |
| 9 | meaning | meaning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 meaning | nsubj |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 meaning | cop |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 meaning | advmod |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 meaning | det |
| 13 | meaning | meaning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 words | acl:relcl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 words | case |
| 15 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 words | nmod:poss |
| 16 | separate | separate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 words | amod |
| 17 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 meaning | nmod |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 have | punct |
| 19 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 20 have | nsubj |
| 20 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 group | parataxis |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 learn | mark |
| 22 | learn | learn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 have | xcomp |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 learn | obj |
| 24 | as | as | ADP | _ | 27 piece | case |
| 25 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 27 piece | nummod |
| 26 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 piece | amod |
| 27 | piece | piece | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 learn | obl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 key | punct |
| 29 | like | like | ADP | _ | 31 key | case |
| 30 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 key | det |
| 31 | key | key | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 learn | obl |
| 32 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 33 opens | nsubj |
| 33 | opens | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 key | acl:relcl |
| 34 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 35 door | nummod |
| 35 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 opens | obj |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 group | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=assert
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | a idiom | a group | of words | tree rules | |||
| 2 | not is a | present | the meaning's meaning | the meaning | of meaning's separate words | tree rules | |||
| 3 | have | present | you | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | learn | to-infinitive | you not said here | meaning | as one whole piece; like a key | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic | |||
| 5 | open | present | a key | one door | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location door=Theme | ||||
| 6 | mean | the meaning | nom meaning «communication transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 7 | word | meaning | nom word «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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:025-idioms-taken-literally.lesson:0.
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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