Verbs: doing words and being words, sentence 15

In current slang, "ate" or "ate and left no crumbs" means did something brilliantly; the old meaning of eat still exists too.

Who acts: ate, old meaning · What happens: leave, mean, do, exist · To what, where: crumbs, current slang, something, eat · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (ate, old meaning), 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	_	3 slang	case
2	current	current	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 slang	amod
3	slang	slang	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 means	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 slang	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 ate	punct
6	ate	ate	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 means	nsubj
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 ate	punct
8	or	or	CCONJ	_	10 ate	cc
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 ate	punct
10	ate	ate	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 ate	conj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 left	cc
12	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 ate	conj
13	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	14 crumbs	det
14	crumbs	crumb	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 left	obj
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 ate	punct
16	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
17	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 means	ccomp
18	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	17 did	obj
19	brilliantly	brilliantly	ADV	_	17 did	advmod
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 meaning	punct
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 meaning	det
22	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 meaning	amod
23	meaning	meaning	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 exists	nsubj
24	of	of	ADP	_	25 eat	case
25	eat	eat	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 meaning	nmod
26	still	still	ADV	_	27 exists	advmod
27	exists	exist	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 means	conj
28	too	too	ADV	_	27 exists	advmod
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 means	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leave in a quote	past	ate or ate not said here	no crumbs				vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crumb=Theme
2	mean	present	ate or ate		current slang			vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	do	past		something			brilliantly property	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Eventuality
4	exist	present	the old meaning of eat			still		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	mean			eat				nom meaning «communication transitive»: of=patient

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:15.

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, 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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