UK elections and the prime minister, as reported, sentence 8

Britain talks about it in a hundred accents: a Geordie says "howay, man" (come on) and calls a good thing "canny", a Scot says "dreich" for grey drizzly weather and "dinnae ken" for "don't know", a Londoner says "bare" for lots, and in Bristol "gurt" means great or big.

Who acts: Britain, Geordie, good thing, Scot, grey drizzly weather, Londoner · What happens: talk, say, come on, call, not know, mean · To what, where: hundred accents, howay, dreich, bare · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «UK elections and the prime minister, as reported» of the politics 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 (Britain, Geordie, good thing, Scot), 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	Britain	Britain	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 talks	nsubj
2	talks	talk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	about	about	ADP	_	4 it	case
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 talks	obl
5	in	in	ADP	_	8 accents	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 accents	det
7	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 accents	nummod
8	accents	accent	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 talks	obl
9	:	:	PUNCT	_	12 says	punct
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 Geordie	det
11	Geordie	geordie	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 says	nsubj
12	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 accents	acl:relcl
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 howay	punct
14	howay	howay	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 says	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 man	punct
16	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 howay	conj
17	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 howay	punct
18	(	(	PUNCT	_	19 come	punct
19	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 says	parataxis
20	on	on	ADV	_	19 come	advmod
21	)	)	PUNCT	_	19 come	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 calls	cc
23	calls	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 come	conj
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 thing	det
25	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 thing	amod
26	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 calls	obj
27	"	"	PUNCT	_	28 canny	punct
28	canny	canny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 thing	amod
29	"	"	PUNCT	_	28 canny	punct
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 says	punct
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 Scot	det
32	Scot	Scot	PROPN	Number=Sing	33 says	nsubj
33	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 come	parataxis
34	"	"	PUNCT	_	35 dreich	punct
35	dreich	dreich	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 says	obj
36	"	"	PUNCT	_	35 dreich	punct
37	for	for	ADP	_	40 weather	case
38	grey	grey	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 weather	amod
39	drizzly	drizzly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 weather	amod
40	weather	weather	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 dreich	nmod
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 ken	cc
42	"	"	PUNCT	_	44 ken	punct
43	dinnae	dinnae	X	_	44 ken	compound
44	ken	ken	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 weather	conj
45	"	"	PUNCT	_	44 ken	punct
46	for	for	ADP	_	50 know	mark
47	"	"	PUNCT	_	50 know	punct
48	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	50 know	aux
49	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	50 know	advmod
50	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	40 weather	acl
51	"	"	PUNCT	_	50 know	punct
52	,	,	PUNCT	_	55 says	punct
53	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	54 Londoner	det
54	Londoner	londoner	PROPN	Number=Sing	55 says	nsubj
55	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	50 know	conj
56	"	"	PUNCT	_	57 bare	punct
57	bare	bare	ADJ	Degree=Pos	55 says	obj
58	"	"	PUNCT	_	57 bare	punct
59	for	for	ADP	_	60 lots	case
60	lots	lot	NOUN	Number=Plur	55 says	obl
61	,	,	PUNCT	_	66 gurt	punct
62	and	and	CCONJ	_	66 gurt	cc
63	in	in	ADP	_	64 Bristol	case
64	Bristol	Bristol	PROPN	Number=Sing	68 means	obl
65	"	"	PUNCT	_	66 gurt	punct
66	gurt	gurt	NOUN	Number=Sing	68 means	nsubj
67	"	"	PUNCT	_	66 gurt	punct
68	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	55 says	conj
69	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	68 means	xcomp
70	or	or	CCONJ	_	71 big	cc
71	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	69 great	conj
72	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 talks	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	talk	present	Britain		a hundred accents	about crown	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about it=Topic
2	say speech: assert	present	a Geordie	howay and man			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent howay=Topic
3	come on	infinitive					vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	call	present	a good thing				vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	say speech: assert	present	a Scot	dreich		for grey drizzly weather and dinnae ken	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent dreich=Topic
6	not know in a quote	present · do-support	grey drizzly weather and dinnae ken not said here				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
7	say speech: assert	present	a Londoner	bare		for lots	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent bare=Topic
8	mean	present	gurt			in Bristol; great property	vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot in bristol=Attribute

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:politics:017-uk-elections-and-the-prime-minister-as-reported.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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×3, R8-pos-agree ×4. 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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