Building words: prefixes, suffixes and compounds, sentence 8
A blend joins parts of two words: brunch (breakfast + lunch), smog (smoke + fog), motel (motor + hotel) and hangry (hungry + angry), which is now in major dictionaries.
Who acts: blend · What happens: join, be · To what, where: parts, major dictionaries
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 (blend), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 blend | det |
| 2 | blend | blend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 joins | nsubj |
| 3 | joins | join | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | parts | part | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 joins | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 words | case |
| 6 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 words | nummod |
| 7 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 parts | nmod |
| 8 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 9 brunch | punct |
| 9 | brunch | brunch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 joins | conj |
| 10 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 11 breakfast | punct |
| 11 | breakfast | breakfast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 brunch | appos |
| 12 | + | + | SYM | _ | 13 lunch | cc |
| 13 | lunch | lunch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 breakfast | conj |
| 14 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 11 breakfast | punct |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 smog | punct |
| 16 | smog | smog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 brunch | conj |
| 17 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 18 smoke | punct |
| 18 | smoke | smoke | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 smog | appos |
| 19 | + | + | SYM | _ | 20 fog | cc |
| 20 | fog | fog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 smoke | conj |
| 21 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 18 smoke | punct |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 motel | punct |
| 23 | motel | motel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 brunch | conj |
| 24 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 25 motor | punct |
| 25 | motor | motor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 breakfast | parataxis |
| 26 | + | + | SYM | _ | 27 hotel | cc |
| 27 | hotel | hotel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 motor | conj |
| 28 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 25 motor | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 hangry | cc |
| 30 | hangry | hangry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 breakfast | conj |
| 31 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 32 hungry | punct |
| 32 | hungry | hungry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 breakfast | appos |
| 33 | + | + | SYM | _ | 34 angry | cc |
| 34 | angry | angry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 hungry | conj |
| 35 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 32 hungry | punct |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 dictionaries | punct |
| 37 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 42 dictionaries | nsubj |
| 38 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 42 dictionaries | cop |
| 39 | now | now | ADV | _ | 42 dictionaries | advmod |
| 40 | in | in | ADP | _ | 42 dictionaries | case |
| 41 | major | major | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 42 dictionaries | amod |
| 42 | dictionaries | dictionary | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 hangry | acl:relcl |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 joins | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | join | present | a blend | parts of two words | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent part=Patient | ||||
| 2 | is | present | major dictionaries | now | 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: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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×3, R7-rel-agree ×6. 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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