Adjectives and adverbs: describing things and actions, sentence 16
In UK slang mint means excellent; in London bare means very or lots of; in the Black Country and Birmingham bostin' means brilliant.
Who acts: mint, bare · What happens: mean · To what, where: lots
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 (mint, bare), 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 | _ | 3 slang | case |
| 2 | UK | UK | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 slang | compound |
| 3 | slang | slang | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 means | obl |
| 4 | mint | mint | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 means | nsubj |
| 5 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | excellent | excellent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 means | xcomp |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 means | punct |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 London | case |
| 9 | London | London | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 means | obl |
| 10 | bare | bare | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 means | nsubj |
| 11 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 means | parataxis |
| 12 | very | very | ADV | _ | 14 lots | advmod |
| 13 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 14 lots | cc |
| 14 | lots | lot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 means | obj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 lots | nmod |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 means | punct |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 Country | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Country | det |
| 19 | Black | Black | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 Country | compound |
| 20 | Country | Country | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 means | obl |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 bostin | cc |
| 22 | Birmingham | Birmingham | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 bostin | compound |
| 23 | bostin | bostin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 Country | conj |
| 24 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 23 bostin | punct |
| 25 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 means | conj |
| 26 | brilliant | brilliant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 means | xcomp |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 means | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=assert
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | mint | in UK slang; excellent property | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot in slang=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | mean | present | bare | lots | in London | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot lot=Theme in london=Attribute | |||
| 3 | mean | present | mint not said here | in the Black Country and Birmingham bostin; brilliant property | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot in country=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:004-adjectives-and-adverbs.lesson:16.
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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