Sarcasm and tone of voice, sentence 14
"She'll be right" in Australia and New Zealand means "it'll be fine, don't worry"; "she" means the situation, not a person, and "yeah, nah" often means "no" or "well, not really".
Who acts: on, Australia, parent · What happens: be, mean, not worry · To what, where: situation · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Sarcasm and tone of voice» 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 (on, Australia, parent), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 right | punct |
| 2 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 right | nsubj |
| 3 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 right | aux |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 right | cop |
| 5 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 right | punct |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 Australia | case |
| 8 | Australia | Australia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 means | nsubj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 Zealand | cc |
| 10 | New | New | PROPN | _ | 11 Zealand | flat |
| 11 | Zealand | Zealand | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Australia | conj |
| 12 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 right | parataxis |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 fine | punct |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 fine | nsubj |
| 15 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 fine | aux |
| 16 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 17 fine | cop |
| 17 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 means | ccomp |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 worry | punct |
| 19 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 21 worry | aux |
| 20 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 21 worry | advmod |
| 21 | worry | worry | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 17 fine | parataxis |
| 22 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 fine | punct |
| 23 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 fine | punct |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 fine | punct |
| 25 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 means | nsubj |
| 26 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 fine | punct |
| 27 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 means | conj |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 situation | det |
| 29 | situation | situation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 means | obj |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 person | punct |
| 31 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 33 person | advmod |
| 32 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 person | det |
| 33 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 right | conj |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 means | punct |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 42 means | cc |
| 36 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 42 means | punct |
| 37 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 42 means | discourse |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 means | punct |
| 39 | nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 42 means | discourse |
| 40 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 39 nah | punct |
| 41 | often | often | ADV | _ | 42 means | advmod |
| 42 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 right | parataxis |
| 43 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 44 no | punct |
| 44 | no | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 51 really | discourse |
| 45 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 44 no | punct |
| 46 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 51 really | cc |
| 47 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 51 really | punct |
| 48 | well | well | INTJ | _ | 51 really | discourse |
| 49 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 48 well | punct |
| 50 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 51 really | advmod |
| 51 | really | really | ADV | _ | 42 means | obj |
| 52 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 51 really | punct |
| 53 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 right | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | future | on | right property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | mean | present | Australia and New Zealand | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is in a quote | future | parent | fine property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | not worry in a quote | infinitive · do-support | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 5 | mean | present | on | the situation | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent situation=Topic | ||||
| 6 | mean | present | often property | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent really=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:029-sarcasm-and-tone-of-voice.lesson:14.
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 ×5. 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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