Idioms taken literally, sentence 6

In theatre "Break a leg!" means "Good luck!"; actors thought saying "good luck" was unlucky, and the exact origin is not known.

Who acts: actors, good luck · What happens: break, mean, think, say, be, not know · To what, where: leg, Good luck, exact origin · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (actors, good luck), 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 theatre	case
2	theatre	theatre	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 means	obl
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 Break	punct
4	Break	break	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 theatre	parataxis
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 leg	det
6	leg	leg	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 Break	obj
7	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 Break	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 Break	punct
9	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 luck	punct
11	Good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 luck	amod
12	luck	luck	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 means	obj
13	!	!	PUNCT	_	12 luck	punct
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 luck	punct
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 thought	punct
16	actors	actor	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 thought	nsubj
17	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 means	parataxis
18	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 thought	advcl
19	"	"	PUNCT	_	21 luck	punct
20	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 luck	amod
21	luck	luck	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 unlucky	nsubj
22	"	"	PUNCT	_	21 luck	punct
23	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 unlucky	cop
24	unlucky	unlucky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 saying	ccomp
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 known	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 known	cc
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 origin	det
28	exact	exact	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 origin	amod
29	origin	origin	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 known	nsubj:pass
30	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 known	aux:pass
31	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	32 known	advmod
32	known	know	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 thought	conj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 means	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	break in a quote	infinitive		a leg		vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer leg=Patient
2	mean	present		Good luck	in theatre	vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot luck=Theme in theatre=Attribute
3	think speech: other	past	actors			vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	say speech: assert	gerund	actors not said here			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
5	is	past	good luck		unlucky property	tree rules
6	not know	present · passive		the exact origin		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus

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: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): R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-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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