The big language quiz, sentence 8
British biscuit, pavement and lift are American cookie, sidewalk and elevator.
Who acts: British biscuit · What happens: be · To what, where: American cookie
This is a sentence of the lesson «The big language quiz» 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 (British biscuit), 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 | British | British | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 biscuit | amod |
| 2 | biscuit | biscuit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 cookie | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 pavement | punct |
| 4 | pavement | pavement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 biscuit | conj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 lift | cc |
| 6 | lift | lift | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 biscuit | conj |
| 7 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 cookie | cop |
| 8 | American | American | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 cookie | amod |
| 9 | cookie | cookie | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 sidewalk | punct |
| 11 | sidewalk | sidewalk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 cookie | conj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 elevator | cc |
| 13 | elevator | elevator | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 cookie | conj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 cookie | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | British biscuit and pavement and lift | American cookie and sidewalk and elevator | 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:040-the-big-language-quiz.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): no change. 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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