Algorithms, bubbles and false balance, sentence 16
Words in this lesson: "it's giving" means "it looks like" or "it feels like"; "highkey" means openly or very; "fixin' to" in the US South means about to; "gurt" in the West Country means big.
Who acts: way, it, highkey, gurt · What happens: give, mean, look, feel · To what, where: fixin, US South · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Algorithms, bubbles and false balance» 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 (way, it, highkey, gurt), 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 | Words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 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 Words | nmod |
| 5 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 11 means | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 giving | punct |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 giving | nsubj |
| 8 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 giving | aux |
| 9 | giving | give | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 means | ccomp |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 giving | punct |
| 11 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Words | appos |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 looks | punct |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 looks | nsubj |
| 14 | looks | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 means | ccomp |
| 15 | like | like | SCONJ | _ | 20 feels | mark |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 feels | punct |
| 17 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 20 feels | cc |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 feels | punct |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 feels | nsubj |
| 20 | feels | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 looks | conj |
| 21 | like | like | SCONJ | _ | 27 means | mark |
| 22 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 27 means | punct |
| 23 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 27 means | punct |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 25 highkey | punct |
| 25 | highkey | highkey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 means | nsubj |
| 26 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 25 highkey | punct |
| 27 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 feels | advcl:relcl |
| 28 | openly | openly | ADV | _ | 27 means | advmod |
| 29 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 30 very | cc |
| 30 | very | very | ADV | _ | 28 openly | conj |
| 31 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 33 fixin | punct |
| 32 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 33 fixin | punct |
| 33 | fixin | fixin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 feels | obl |
| 34 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 33 fixin | punct |
| 35 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 looks | xcomp |
| 36 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 looks | punct |
| 37 | in | in | ADP | _ | 40 South | case |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 South | det |
| 39 | US | US | PROPN | Number=Sing | 40 South | compound |
| 40 | South | South | PROPN | Number=Sing | 41 means | obl |
| 41 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 looks | advcl |
| 42 | about | about | ADV | _ | 41 means | advmod |
| 43 | to | to | PART | _ | 42 about | fixed |
| 44 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 46 gurt | punct |
| 45 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 46 gurt | punct |
| 46 | gurt | gurt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 52 means | nsubj |
| 47 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 46 gurt | punct |
| 48 | in | in | ADP | _ | 51 Country | case |
| 49 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 51 Country | det |
| 50 | West | West | PROPN | Number=Sing | 51 Country | compound |
| 51 | Country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 52 means | obl |
| 52 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 41 means | ccomp |
| 53 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 52 means | xcomp |
| 54 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Words | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give in a quote | present · progressive | way | vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 2 | mean | present | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 3 | look in a quote | present | way | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | feel in a quote | present | it | fixin | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | mean | present | highkey | openly property | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 6 | mean | present | way not said here | the US South | about property | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||
| 7 | mean | present | gurt | in the West Country; big property | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot in country=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:034-algorithms-bubbles-and-false-balance.lesson:16.
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): R7-rel-agree ×3, 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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