Texting, abbreviations and emoji, sentence 9

Surveys reported in the news say some young people read the 👍 emoji as cold or annoyed, while many older people use it just to mean OK.

Who acts: Surveys, young people, many older people · What happens: report, say, read, use, mean · To what, where: news, 👍 emoji, OK · 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 (Surveys, young people, many older people), 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	Surveys	survey	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 reported	nsubj
2	reported	report	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 news	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 news	det
5	news	news	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 reported	obl
6	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 reported	ccomp
7	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	9 people	det
8	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 people	amod
9	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 read	nsubj
10	read	read	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 say	ccomp
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 emoji	det
12	👍	👍	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 emoji	compound
13	emoji	emoji	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 read	obj
14	as	as	ADP	_	15 cold	case
15	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 read	obl
16	or	or	CCONJ	_	17 annoyed	cc
17	annoyed	annoyed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 cold	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 use	punct
19	while	while	SCONJ	_	23 use	mark
20	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 people	amod
21	older	old	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	22 people	amod
22	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 use	nsubj
23	use	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 read	advcl
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 use	obj
25	just	just	ADV	_	27 mean	advmod
26	to	to	PART	_	27 mean	mark
27	mean	mean	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 use	advcl
28	OK	ok	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 mean	obj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 say	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed polarity=none

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	report	past	Surveys		the news		vn characterize-29.2-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	say speech: assert	infinitive	Surveys not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	read	infinitive	some young people	the 👍 emoji		as cold	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer emoji=Stimulus as cold=Attribute
4	use	present	many older people	news			vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
5	mean	to-infinitive	many older people not said here	OK			vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ok=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:9.

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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