Prepositions and conjunctions: little words that hold sentences together, sentence 11
In Australia "servo" means a petrol (service) station and "arvo" means afternoon; arvo is used in New Zealand too.
Who acts: servo, arvo · What happens: mean, use · To what, where: petrol station, arvo, New
This is a sentence of the lesson «Prepositions and conjunctions: little words that hold sentences together» 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 (servo, arvo), 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 Australia | case |
| 2 | Australia | Australia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 means | obl |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 servo | punct |
| 4 | servo | servo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 means | nsubj |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 servo | punct |
| 6 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 station | det |
| 8 | petrol | petrol | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 station | compound |
| 9 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 10 service | punct |
| 10 | service | service | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 petrol | conj |
| 11 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 10 service | punct |
| 12 | station | station | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 means | obj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 means | cc |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 arvo | punct |
| 15 | arvo | arvo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 means | nsubj |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 arvo | punct |
| 17 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 means | conj |
| 18 | afternoon | afternoon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 means | obj |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 used | punct |
| 20 | arvo | arvo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 used | nsubj:pass |
| 21 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 used | aux:pass |
| 22 | used | use | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 means | conj |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 New | case |
| 24 | New | New | PROPN | _ | 22 used | obl |
| 25 | Zealand | Zealand | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 New | flat |
| 26 | too | too | ADV | _ | 22 used | advmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 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 | servo | a petrol station | in Australia | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot station=Theme in australia=Attribute | |||
| 2 | mean | present | arvo | afternoon | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | use | present · passive | arvo | New | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
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:006-prepositions-and-conjunctions.lesson:11.
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, R6-punct-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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