Building words: prefixes, suffixes and compounds, sentence 14

"Dead" as a booster meaning very ("dead good") is common in Liverpool and much of northern England; in Leicester and the East Midlands "me duck" is a friendly word, like love or dear.

Who acts: Dead, people, duck · What happens: mean, be, duck · To what, where: dead good, Liverpool, Leicester, friendly word

This is a sentence of the lesson «Building words: prefixes, suffixes and compounds» 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 (Dead, people, duck), 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 Dead	punct
2	Dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 common	nsubj
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Dead	punct
4	as	as	ADP	_	6 booster	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 booster	det
6	booster	booster	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Dead	nmod
7	meaning	mean	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 Dead	acl
8	very	very	ADV	_	7 meaning	advmod
9	(	(	PUNCT	_	12 good	punct
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 good	punct
11	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 good	amod
12	good	good	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 meaning	obl
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 good	punct
14	)	)	PUNCT	_	12 good	punct
15	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 common	cop
16	common	common	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
17	in	in	ADP	_	18 Liverpool	case
18	Liverpool	Liverpool	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 common	obl
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 much	cc
20	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 Liverpool	conj
21	of	of	ADP	_	23 England	case
22	northern	northern	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 England	amod
23	England	England	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 much	nmod
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	38 word	punct
25	in	in	ADP	_	26 Leicester	case
26	Leicester	Leicester	PROPN	Number=Sing	33 duck	obl
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 Midlands	cc
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 Midlands	det
29	East	East	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 Midlands	compound
30	Midlands	Midlands	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 Leicester	conj
31	"	"	PUNCT	_	33 duck	punct
32	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	33 duck	nsubj
33	duck	duck	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 word	nsubj
34	"	"	PUNCT	_	33 duck	punct
35	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	38 word	cop
36	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	38 word	det
37	friendly	friendly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 word	amod
38	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 common	conj
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 love	punct
40	like	like	ADP	_	41 love	case
41	love	love	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 word	appos
42	or	or	CCONJ	_	43 dear	cc
43	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 love	conj
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 common	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	mean	gerund		dead good			vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	Dead as a booster		Liverpool	common property	tree rules
3	duck in a quote		people		Leicester and the East Midlands		tree rules
4	is a	present	duck	a friendly word			tree rules

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:037-building-words-prefixes-suffixes-and-compounds.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): 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.

See the release 0.4.

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