Kinds of sentences: statements, questions, commands, exclamations, sentence 14
In Australia and New Zealand "yeah nah" usually means no, politely, and "nah yeah" usually means yes; listen to the last word.
Who acts: nah · What happens: mean, listen
This is a sentence of the lesson «Kinds of sentences: statements, questions, commands, exclamations» 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 (nah), 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 | 11 means | obl |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 Zealand | cc |
| 4 | New | New | PROPN | _ | 5 Zealand | flat |
| 5 | Zealand | Zealand | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Australia | conj |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Australia | punct |
| 7 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 8 nah | discourse |
| 8 | nah | nah | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 means | nsubj |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 nah | punct |
| 10 | usually | usually | ADV | _ | 11 means | advmod |
| 11 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | no | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 11 means | discourse |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 politely | punct |
| 14 | politely | politely | ADV | _ | 11 means | advmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 means | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 means | cc |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 means | punct |
| 18 | nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 22 means | discourse |
| 19 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 22 means | discourse |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 yeah | punct |
| 21 | usually | usually | ADV | _ | 22 means | advmod |
| 22 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 means | conj |
| 23 | yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 22 means | discourse |
| 24 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 yes | punct |
| 25 | listen | listen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 means | parataxis |
| 26 | to | to | ADP | _ | 29 word | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 word | det |
| 28 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 word | amod |
| 29 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 listen | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 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 | nah | in Australia and New Zealand; politely, usually property | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot in australia=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | mean | present | nah not said here | usually property | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | listen | infinitive | to the last word | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to word=Theme |
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:007-kinds-of-sentences.lesson:14.
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. 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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