Words that changed their meaning, sentence 15
In maths and science "random" means by chance; in slang since the 1980s it also means strange or out of place.
Who acts: random · What happens: mean
This is a sentence of the lesson «Words that changed their meaning» 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 (random), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 maths | case |
| 2 | maths | math | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 means | obl |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 science | cc |
| 4 | science | science | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 maths | conj |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 random | punct |
| 6 | random | random | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 means | nsubj |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 random | punct |
| 8 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | by | by | ADP | _ | 10 chance | case |
| 10 | chance | chance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 means | obl |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 slang | punct |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 slang | case |
| 13 | slang | slang | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 means | obl |
| 14 | since | since | ADP | _ | 16 1980s | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 1980s | det |
| 16 | 1980s | 1980s | NOUN | Number=Ptan NumForm=Combi NumType=Card | 19 means | obl |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 means | nsubj |
| 18 | also | also | ADV | _ | 19 means | advmod |
| 19 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 means | parataxis |
| 20 | strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 means | xcomp |
| 21 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 24 place | cc |
| 22 | out | out | ADP | _ | 24 place | case |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 place | case |
| 24 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 strange | conj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 means | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | random | by chance; in maths and science | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot in math=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | mean | present | random | since the 1980s | in slang; strange property | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot in slang=Attribute |
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:038-words-that-changed-their-meaning.lesson:15.
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. 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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