Protests, petitions and young activists, sentence 16
Words in this lesson: "slay" means do something brilliantly; "back in my day" is how older people start a story about when they were young; "yinz" in Pittsburgh means you all; "craic" in Ireland means fun or news, and "eejit" means fool.
Who acts: slay, older people, people, yinz, craic, eejit · What happens: means, do, be, mean · To what, where: something, you, fun, fool
This is a sentence of the lesson «Protests, petitions and young activists» 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 (slay, older people, people, yinz), 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 | 38 means | dislocated |
| 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 | _ | 7 slay | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 slay | punct |
| 7 | slay | slay | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 means | nsubj |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 slay | punct |
| 9 | means | means | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 38 means | parataxis |
| 10 | do | do | VERB | _ | 9 means | ccomp |
| 11 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 10 do | obj |
| 12 | brilliantly | brilliantly | ADV | _ | 10 do | advmod |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 do | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 back | punct |
| 15 | back | back | ADV | _ | 18 day | advmod |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 day | case |
| 17 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 day | nmod:poss |
| 18 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 start | obl |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 day | punct |
| 20 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 start | cop |
| 21 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 24 start | advmod |
| 22 | older | old | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 23 people | amod |
| 23 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 start | nsubj |
| 24 | start | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 38 means | advcl |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 story | det |
| 26 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 start | obj |
| 27 | about | about | SCONJ | _ | 31 young | mark |
| 28 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 31 young | advmod |
| 29 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 young | nsubj |
| 30 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 young | cop |
| 31 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 story | nmod |
| 32 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 34 yinz | punct |
| 33 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 34 yinz | punct |
| 34 | yinz | yinz | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 means | nsubj |
| 35 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 34 yinz | punct |
| 36 | in | in | ADP | _ | 37 Pittsburgh | case |
| 37 | Pittsburgh | Pittsburgh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 yinz | nmod |
| 38 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 39 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 38 means | obj |
| 40 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 39 you | nmod:unmarked |
| 41 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 47 means | punct |
| 42 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 43 craic | punct |
| 43 | craic | craic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 means | nsubj |
| 44 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 43 craic | punct |
| 45 | in | in | ADP | _ | 46 Ireland | case |
| 46 | Ireland | Ireland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 43 craic | nmod |
| 47 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 38 means | conj |
| 48 | fun | fun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 means | obj |
| 49 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 50 news | cc |
| 50 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 fun | conj |
| 51 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 56 means | punct |
| 52 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 56 means | cc |
| 53 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 54 eejit | punct |
| 54 | eejit | eejit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 56 means | nsubj |
| 55 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 54 eejit | punct |
| 56 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 47 means | conj |
| 57 | fool | fool | NOUN | Number=Sing | 56 means | obj |
| 58 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Words | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=assert, polarity=none, voice=narrator
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | means | present | slay | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | do | infinitive | slay not said here | something | brilliantly property | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Eventuality | |||
| 3 | is | present | older people | day | start property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | is | past | people | young property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | mean | present | yinz in Pittsburgh | you | Words in this lesson dislocated | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Topic | |||
| 6 | mean | present | craic in Ireland | fun or news | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fun=Topic | ||||
| 7 | mean | present | eejit | fool | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fool=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:038-protests-petitions-and-young-activists.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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×4, 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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