Texting, abbreviations and emoji, sentence 12
"brb" means be right back, "gtg" means got to go, and "ttyl" means talk to you later.
Who acts: brb, gtg, ttyl · What happens: mean, be, get, go, talk · To what, where: you · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Texting, abbreviations and emoji» 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 (brb, gtg, ttyl), 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 | _ | 2 brb | punct |
| 2 | brb | brb | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 means | nsubj |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 brb | punct |
| 4 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 back | cop |
| 6 | right | right | ADV | _ | 7 back | advmod |
| 7 | back | back | ADV | _ | 4 means | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 got | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 gtg | punct |
| 10 | gtg | gtg | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 means | nsubj |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 gtg | punct |
| 12 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 means | parataxis |
| 13 | got | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 12 means | ccomp |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 go | mark |
| 15 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 got | xcomp |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 means | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 means | cc |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 ttyl | punct |
| 19 | ttyl | ttyl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 means | nsubj |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 ttyl | punct |
| 21 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 means | parataxis |
| 22 | talk | talk | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 means | ccomp |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 you | case |
| 24 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 22 talk | obl |
| 25 | later | late | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 22 talk | advmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 means | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | brb | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is | infinitive | back, right property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | mean | present | gtg | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | get | participle | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||||
| 5 | go | to-infinitive | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 6 | mean | present | ttyl | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 7 | talk | infinitive | you | late property | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to you=Co-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:030-texting-abbreviations-and-emoji.lesson:12.
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): 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.
See the release 0.4.
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