Checking practice: true, false and not sure yet, sentence 16
Words in this lesson: "nesh" in the North and Midlands of England means always feeling the cold; "mardy" means grumpy or sulky; "now now" in South Africa means soon; "chur" in New Zealand means thanks or cool.
Who acts: nesh, mardy, chur · What happens: mean, feel · To what, where: cold, thanks
This is a sentence of the lesson «Checking practice: true, false and not sure yet» 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 (nesh, mardy, chur), 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 | _ | 16 means | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 nesh | punct |
| 7 | nesh | nesh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 means | nsubj |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 nesh | punct |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 Midlands | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 North | det |
| 11 | North | North | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Midlands | compound |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 Midlands | cc |
| 13 | Midlands | Midlands | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 nesh | nmod |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 England | case |
| 15 | England | England | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 North | nmod |
| 16 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Words | appos |
| 17 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 18 feeling | advmod |
| 18 | feeling | feel | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 16 means | xcomp |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 cold | det |
| 20 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 feeling | obj |
| 21 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 means | punct |
| 22 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 mardy | punct |
| 23 | mardy | mardy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 means | nsubj |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 mardy | punct |
| 25 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 means | parataxis |
| 26 | grumpy | grumpy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 means | xcomp |
| 27 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 28 sulky | cc |
| 28 | sulky | sulky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 grumpy | conj |
| 29 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 26 grumpy | punct |
| 30 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 26 grumpy | punct |
| 31 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 37 means | nsubj |
| 32 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 31 now | fixed |
| 33 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 32 now | punct |
| 34 | in | in | ADP | _ | 36 Africa | case |
| 35 | South | South | PROPN | Number=Sing | 36 Africa | compound |
| 36 | Africa | Africa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 now | obl |
| 37 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 means | conj |
| 38 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 37 means | advmod |
| 39 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 46 means | punct |
| 40 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 41 chur | punct |
| 41 | chur | chur | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 means | nsubj |
| 42 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 41 chur | punct |
| 43 | in | in | ADP | _ | 45 Zealand | case |
| 44 | New | New | PROPN | _ | 45 Zealand | compound |
| 45 | Zealand | Zealand | PROPN | Number=Sing | 41 chur | nmod |
| 46 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 37 means | conj |
| 47 | thanks | thanks | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 means | obj |
| 48 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 49 cool | cc |
| 49 | cool | cool | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 47 thanks | conj |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Words | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=assert, polarity=none
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | nesh in North Midlands | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | feel not said to happen | gerund | nesh in North Midlands not said here | the cold | always property | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cold=Theme | |||
| 3 | mean | present | mardy | grumpy property | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | mean | present | soon property | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | mean | present | chur in New Zealand | thanks | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thanks=Topic |
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:036-checking-practice-true-false-not-sure.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): R5-strong ×3, 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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