Building words: prefixes, suffixes and compounds, sentence 15
"Selfie" is "self" plus the friendly ending "-ie", a favourite in Australian English (brekkie for breakfast, barbie for barbecue); it was Oxford Dictionaries' Word of the Year in 2013.
Who acts: Selfie · What happens: be · To what, where: self
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 (Selfie), 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 Selfie | punct |
| 2 | Selfie | Selfie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 self | nsubj |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Selfie | punct |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 self | cop |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 self | punct |
| 6 | self | self | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 self | punct |
| 8 | plus | plus | CCONJ | _ | 11 ending | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 ending | det |
| 10 | friendly | friendly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 ending | amod |
| 11 | ending | ending | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 self | conj |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 ending | punct |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 ie | punct |
| 14 | ie | ie | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 ending | appos |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 ie | punct |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 ie | punct |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 favourite | det |
| 18 | favourite | favourite | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 ie | appos |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 English | case |
| 20 | Australian | Australian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 English | amod |
| 21 | English | English | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 favourite | nmod |
| 22 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 23 brekkie | punct |
| 23 | brekkie | brekkie | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 English | appos |
| 24 | for | for | ADP | _ | 25 breakfast | case |
| 25 | breakfast | breakfast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 brekkie | nmod |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 barbie | punct |
| 27 | barbie | barbie | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 brekkie | conj |
| 28 | for | for | ADP | _ | 29 barbecue | case |
| 29 | barbecue | barbecue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 barbie | nmod |
| 30 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 23 brekkie | punct |
| 31 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 37 Word | punct |
| 32 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 Word | nsubj |
| 33 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 Dictionaries | cop |
| 34 | Oxford | Oxford | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 Dictionaries | compound |
| 35 | Dictionaries | dictionary | PROPN | Number=Plur | 37 Word | nmod:poss |
| 36 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 35 Dictionaries | case |
| 37 | Word | Word | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 self | parataxis |
| 38 | of | of | ADP | _ | 40 Year | case |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 Year | det |
| 40 | Year | Year | PROPN | Number=Sing | 37 Word | nmod |
| 41 | in | in | ADP | _ | 42 2013 | case |
| 42 | 2013 | 2013 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 37 Word | nmod |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 self | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- other
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | Selfie | self plus the friendly ending | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | past | 's Oxford Dictionaries | 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.
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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, R7-rel-agree ×3, R8-pos-agree ×3. 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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