Arguing politely and never calling names, sentence 16
Words in this lesson: "don't have a cow" means calm down; "bruv" in London means mate; "tamping" in Wales means furious; "cwtch" in Wales means a cuddle; "can or not" in Singapore English means "is that OK?"
Who acts: bruv, tamping, cwtch, Words, that · What happens: not have, mean, calm down, be · To what, where: cow, mate, cuddle · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Arguing politely and never calling names» 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 (bruv, tamping, cwtch, Words), 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 | 50 means | nsubj |
| 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 | _ | 9 have | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 have | punct |
| 7 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 have | aux |
| 8 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 have | advmod |
| 9 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Words | parataxis |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 cow | det |
| 11 | cow | cow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 have | obj |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 have | punct |
| 13 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 have | parataxis |
| 14 | calm | calm | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 means | ccomp |
| 15 | down | down | ADP | _ | 14 calm | compound:prt |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 bruv | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 bruv | punct |
| 18 | bruv | bruv | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 means | nsubj |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 bruv | punct |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 London | case |
| 21 | London | London | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 bruv | nmod |
| 22 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 have | parataxis |
| 23 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 means | obj |
| 24 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 26 tamping | punct |
| 25 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 26 tamping | punct |
| 26 | tamping | tamping | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 means | nsubj |
| 27 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 26 tamping | punct |
| 28 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 Wales | case |
| 29 | Wales | Wales | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 tamping | nmod |
| 30 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 means | parataxis |
| 31 | furious | furious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 means | xcomp |
| 32 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 38 means | punct |
| 33 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 34 cwtch | punct |
| 34 | cwtch | cwtch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 means | nsubj |
| 35 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 34 cwtch | punct |
| 36 | in | in | ADP | _ | 37 Wales | case |
| 37 | Wales | Wales | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 cwtch | nmod |
| 38 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 means | conj |
| 39 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 40 cuddle | det |
| 40 | cuddle | cuddle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 means | obj |
| 41 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 43 can | punct |
| 42 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 43 can | punct |
| 43 | can | can | NOUN | Number=Sing | 50 means | nsubj |
| 44 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 45 not | cc |
| 45 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 43 can | conj |
| 46 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 43 can | punct |
| 47 | in | in | ADP | _ | 49 English | case |
| 48 | Singapore | Singapore | PROPN | Number=Sing | 49 English | compound |
| 49 | English | English | PROPN | Number=Sing | 50 means | obl |
| 50 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 51 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 54 OK | punct |
| 52 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 54 OK | cop |
| 53 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 54 OK | nsubj |
| 54 | OK | ok | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 50 means | ccomp |
| 55 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 54 OK | punct |
| 56 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 54 OK | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- character
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed form=decl, act=assert, indirect=0
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not have in a quote | present · do-support | a cow | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | mean | present | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 3 | calm down | infinitive | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | mean | present | bruv in London | mate | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mate=Topic | ||||
| 5 | mean | present | tamping in Wales | furious property | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 6 | mean | present | cwtch in Wales | a cuddle | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cuddle=Topic | ||||
| 7 | mean | present | Words in this lesson | in Singapore English | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot in english=Attribute | ||||
| 8 | is in a quote | present | that | ok property | tree rules |
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:039-arguing-politely-and-never-calling-names.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 ×2, 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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