Olympiad: best buys and change at the till ★★★, sentence 16
Slang in this lesson: "skint" means having no money, "canny" (North East England) means good or clever, "lush" (Wales) means great, "servo" (Australia) is a petrol station, "bussin'" means really good, "no cap" means honestly, and "sound" (Liverpool, Manchester) means fine or right.
Who acts: skint, canny, lush, bussin, cap, Liverpool · What happens: mean, have, be · To what, where: money, servo, petrol station · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: best buys and change at the till ★★★» of the money 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 (skint, canny, lush, bussin), 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 | Slang | slang | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 lesson | case |
| 3 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 lesson | det |
| 4 | lesson | lesson | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Slang | nmod |
| 5 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 1 Slang | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 skint | punct |
| 7 | skint | skint | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 means | nsubj |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 skint | punct |
| 9 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Slang | parataxis |
| 10 | having | have | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 means | ccomp |
| 11 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 12 money | det |
| 12 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 having | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 canny | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 canny | punct |
| 15 | canny | canny | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 means | nsubj |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 canny | punct |
| 17 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 20 England | punct |
| 18 | North | North | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 East | compound |
| 19 | East | East | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 England | compound |
| 20 | England | England | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 canny | appos |
| 21 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 20 England | punct |
| 22 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Slang | parataxis |
| 23 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 means | xcomp |
| 24 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 25 clever | cc |
| 25 | clever | clever | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 good | conj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 lush | punct |
| 27 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 28 lush | punct |
| 28 | lush | lush | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 means | nsubj |
| 29 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 28 lush | punct |
| 30 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 31 Wales | punct |
| 31 | Wales | Wales | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 means | nsubj |
| 32 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 31 Wales | punct |
| 33 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 means | parataxis |
| 34 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 means | xcomp |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 servo | punct |
| 36 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 37 servo | punct |
| 37 | servo | servo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 means | obj |
| 38 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 37 servo | punct |
| 39 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 40 Australia | punct |
| 40 | Australia | Australia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 37 servo | appos |
| 41 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 40 Australia | punct |
| 42 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 45 station | cop |
| 43 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 45 station | det |
| 44 | petrol | petrol | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 station | compound |
| 45 | station | station | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 means | parataxis |
| 46 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 station | punct |
| 47 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 48 bussin | punct |
| 48 | bussin | bussin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 51 means | nsubj |
| 49 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 48 bussin | punct |
| 50 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 48 bussin | punct |
| 51 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 33 means | parataxis |
| 52 | really | really | ADV | _ | 53 good | advmod |
| 53 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 51 means | xcomp |
| 54 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 59 means | punct |
| 55 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 57 cap | punct |
| 56 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 57 cap | det |
| 57 | cap | cap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 59 means | nsubj |
| 58 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 57 cap | punct |
| 59 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 33 means | parataxis |
| 60 | honestly | honestly | ADV | _ | 59 means | advmod |
| 61 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 64 sound | punct |
| 62 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 64 sound | cc |
| 63 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 64 sound | punct |
| 64 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 59 means | parataxis |
| 65 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 64 sound | punct |
| 66 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 67 Liverpool | punct |
| 67 | Liverpool | Liverpool | PROPN | Number=Sing | 71 means | nsubj |
| 68 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 69 Manchester | punct |
| 69 | Manchester | Manchester | PROPN | Number=Sing | 67 Liverpool | conj |
| 70 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 67 Liverpool | punct |
| 71 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 59 means | conj |
| 72 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 71 means | xcomp |
| 73 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 74 right | cc |
| 74 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 72 fine | conj |
| 75 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Slang | 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 | skint | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | have | gerund | no money | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Patient | |||||
| 3 | mean | present | canny | good property | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | mean | present | lush | servo | great property | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent servo=Topic | |||
| 5 | is a | present | a petrol station | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | mean | present | bussin | good property | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 7 | mean | present | no cap | honestly property | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 8 | mean | present | Liverpool and Manchester | fine property | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V 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.
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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 ×3, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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