Prepositions and conjunctions: little words that hold sentences together, sentence 16

Bored of, bored with and bored by all mean the same; older writers often prefer with or by, and younger speakers mostly say of.

Who acts: older writers, younger speakers · What happens: bore, mean, prefer, say · To what, where: all, same · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (older writers, younger speakers), 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	Bored	bored	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	of	of	ADP	_	1 Bored	obl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 bored	punct
4	bored	bored	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Bored	conj
5	with	with	ADP	_	4 bored	obl
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 bored	cc
7	bored	bore	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 bored	conj
8	by	by	ADP	_	10 mean	mark
9	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 bored	obl
10	mean	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 bored	advcl
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 same	det
12	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 mean	obj
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 prefer	punct
14	older	old	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	15 writers	amod
15	writers	writer	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 prefer	nsubj
16	often	often	ADV	_	17 prefer	advmod
17	prefer	prefer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Bored	parataxis
18	with	with	ADP	_	17 prefer	obl
19	or	or	CCONJ	_	20 by	cc
20	by	by	ADP	_	18 with	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 say	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 say	cc
23	younger	young	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	24 speakers	amod
24	speakers	speaker	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 say	nsubj
25	mostly	mostly	ADV	_	26 say	advmod
26	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 prefer	conj
27	of	of	ADP	_	26 say	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Bored	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	bore	participle		all		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
2	mean	present		the same		vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent same=Topic
3	prefer	present	older writers		often property	vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer
4	say speech: assert	present	younger speakers		mostly property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=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:006-prepositions-and-conjunctions.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): 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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