Words that changed their meaning, sentence 4
When something in an old text sounds odd, ask yourself: "Did this word mean something different back then?"
Who acts: something, you, word · What happens: sound, ask, mean · To what, where: yourself, something · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (something, you, word), 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 7 sounds | mark |
| 2 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 7 sounds | nsubj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 text | case |
| 4 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 text | det |
| 5 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 text | amod |
| 6 | text | text | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 something | nmod |
| 7 | sounds | sound | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 ask | advcl |
| 8 | odd | odd | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 sounds | xcomp |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 sounds | punct |
| 10 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 11 | yourself | yourself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 10 ask | obj |
| 12 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 10 ask | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 mean | punct |
| 14 | Did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 mean | aux |
| 15 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 16 word | det |
| 16 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 mean | nsubj |
| 17 | mean | mean | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 ask | ccomp |
| 18 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 17 mean | obj |
| 19 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 something | amod |
| 20 | back | back | ADV | _ | 21 then | advmod |
| 21 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 17 mean | advmod |
| 22 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 10 ask | punct |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 ask | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sound | present | something | odd property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | imperative | you not said here | yourself | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP that S»: agent=Agent yourself=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | mean in a quote | past · do-support | this word | something | then | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=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:038-words-that-changed-their-meaning.lesson:4.
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): R7-rel-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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