Adjectives and adverbs: describing things and actions, sentence 15
Wicked means very in New England in the US (wicked good), brilliant in British slang, and evil in its old standard meaning.
Who acts: Wicked, slang · What happens: mean, wick
This is a sentence of the lesson «Adjectives and adverbs: describing things and actions» 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 (Wicked, slang), 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 | Wicked | wicked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 means | nsubj |
| 2 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | very | very | ADV | _ | 2 means | obj |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 England | case |
| 5 | New | New | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 England | amod |
| 6 | England | England | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 means | obl |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 US | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 US | det |
| 9 | US | US | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 England | nmod |
| 10 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 11 wicked | punct |
| 11 | wicked | wick | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 England | parataxis |
| 12 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 wicked | xcomp |
| 13 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 12 good | punct |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 brilliant | punct |
| 15 | brilliant | brilliant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 means | parataxis |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 slang | case |
| 17 | British | British | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 slang | amod |
| 18 | slang | slang | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 brilliant | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 evil | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 evil | cc |
| 21 | evil | evil | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 brilliant | conj |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 meaning | case |
| 23 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 meaning | nmod:poss |
| 24 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 meaning | amod |
| 25 | standard | standard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 meaning | amod |
| 26 | meaning | meaning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 evil | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 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 | Wicked | in New England in the US | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot very=Theme in england=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | wick | participle | good property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | mean | slang | nom meaning «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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:004-adjectives-and-adverbs.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): R6-punct-agree ×1, 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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