Prepositions and conjunctions: little words that hold sentences together, sentence 9

In Britain, especially the North, "I'm sat" and "I'm stood" mean I am sitting and I am standing; formal writing uses sitting and standing.

Who acts: sat, I, formal writing · What happens: stand, mean, sit, use · To what, where: British English, Britain · 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 (sat, I, formal writing), 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 Britain	case
2	Britain	Britain	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 mean	obl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Britain	punct
4	especially	especially	ADV	_	6 North	advmod
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 North	det
6	North	North	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Britain	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Britain	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 sat	punct
9	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 sat	nsubj
10	'm	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 sat	aux:pass
11	sat	sat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 mean	nsubj
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 sat	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 stood	cc
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	17 stood	punct
15	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 stood	nsubj
16	'm	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 stood	aux:pass
17	stood	stand	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 sat	conj
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	17 stood	punct
19	mean	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
20	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 sitting	nsubj
21	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 sitting	aux
22	sitting	sit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	19 mean	ccomp
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 standing	cc
24	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 standing	nsubj
25	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 standing	aux
26	standing	stand	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	22 sitting	conj
27	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 mean	punct
28	formal	formal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 writing	amod
29	writing	writing	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 uses	nsubj
30	uses	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 mean	parataxis
31	sitting	sit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	30 uses	obj
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 standing	cc
33	standing	standing	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 sitting	conj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	19 mean	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	stand in a quote	present · passive		British English = english		vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus
2	mean	present	sat		Britain and the North	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	sit	present · progressive	I			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	stand	present · progressive	I			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	use	present	formal writing			vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	sit	gerund				vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: 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:9.

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, R8-pos-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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