Prepositions and conjunctions: little words that hold sentences together, sentence 8
British English usually says "at the weekend"; American and Australian English usually say "on the weekend".
Who acts: British English · What happens: say · 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 (British English), 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 English | amod |
| 2 | English | English | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 says | nsubj |
| 3 | usually | usually | ADV | _ | 4 says | advmod |
| 4 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 weekend | punct |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 weekend | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 weekend | det |
| 8 | weekend | weekend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 says | obl |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 weekend | punct |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 American | punct |
| 11 | American | American | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 English | amod |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 English | cc |
| 13 | Australian | Australian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 American | conj |
| 14 | English | English | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 say | conj |
| 15 | usually | usually | ADV | _ | 16 say | advmod |
| 16 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 says | parataxis |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 weekend | punct |
| 18 | on | on | ADP | _ | 20 weekend | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 weekend | det |
| 20 | weekend | weekend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 say | obl |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 weekend | punct |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 says | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | British English | weekend | usually property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | present | weekend | usually 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: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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×3, R7-rel-agree ×2. 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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