Texting, abbreviations and emoji, sentence 8
Emoticons are faces made from keyboard characters, like :-) and :-( ; the computer scientist Scott Fahlman suggested them in 1982.
Who acts: computer scientist · What happens: be, suggest · To what, where: faces, keyboard characters, Emoticons, 1982
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 (computer scientist), 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 | Emoticons | emoticon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 faces | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 made | cop |
| 3 | faces | face | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 4 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 faces | acl |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 characters | case |
| 6 | keyboard | keyboard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 characters | compound |
| 7 | characters | character | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 made | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 suggested | punct |
| 9 | like | like | SCONJ | _ | 23 suggested | mark |
| 10 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 9 like | punct |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 like | punct |
| 12 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 9 like | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 suggested | cc |
| 14 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 15 - | punct |
| 15 | - | - | SYM | ExtPos=ADP | 23 suggested | case |
| 16 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 23 suggested | punct |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 suggested | punct |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 scientist | det |
| 19 | computer | computer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 scientist | compound |
| 20 | scientist | scientist | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 suggested | nsubj |
| 21 | Scott | Scott | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 scientist | appos |
| 22 | Fahlman | Fahlman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 Scott | flat |
| 23 | suggested | suggest | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 faces | parataxis |
| 24 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 suggested | obj |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 1982 | case |
| 26 | 1982 | 1982 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 23 suggested | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 faces | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | faces not said here | keyboard characters | make property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | suggest speech: suggest | past | the computer scientist | Emoticons = emoticon | 1982 | vn say-37.7-1-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent they=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:030-texting-abbreviations-and-emoji.lesson:8.
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): no change. 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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