Verbs: doing words and being words, sentence 14

Brand names can become verbs: in British English "to hoover" means to vacuum, from the Hoover company; "to google" works the same way.

Who acts: Brand names, hoover · What happens: become, mean, vacuum, google, work · To what, where: verbs, British English, Hoover company, same way

This is a sentence of the lesson «Verbs: doing words and being 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 (Brand names, hoover), 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	Brand	brand	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 names	compound
2	names	name	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 become	nsubj
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 become	aux
4	become	become	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	verbs	verb	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 become	xcomp
6	:	:	PUNCT	_	14 means	punct
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 English	case
8	British	British	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 English	amod
9	English	English	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 means	obl
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 hoover	punct
11	to	to	PART	_	12 hoover	mark
12	hoover	hoover	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 means	nsubj
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 hoover	punct
14	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 verbs	parataxis
15	to	to	PART	_	16 vacuum	mark
16	vacuum	vacuum	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 means	xcomp
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 company	punct
18	from	from	ADP	_	21 company	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 company	det
20	Hoover	Hoover	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 company	compound
21	company	company	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 vacuum	obl
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 means	punct
23	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 means	punct
24	to	to	ADP	_	25 google	case
25	google	google	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 works	nsubj
26	"	"	PUNCT	_	25 google	punct
27	works	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 means	parataxis
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 way	det
29	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 way	amod
30	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 works	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 verbs	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	become	can	Brand names	verbs		vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
2	mean	present	hoover		British English	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	vacuum not said to happen	to-infinitive	hoover not said here		the Hoover company	vn wipe_instr-10.4.2-1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent from company=Initial_Location
4	google in a quote	infinitive				tree rules
5	work	present		the same way		vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=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:003-verbs-doing-words-and-being-words.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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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