Lonely and different: accents, big brothers and being too much, sentence 8
"Pom" is Australian slang, often teasing, for a British person; accent teasing is often curiosity done badly.
Who acts: Pom, Australian slang, accent teasing · What happens: be, tease, do · To what, where: Australian slang, curiosity
This is a sentence of the lesson «Lonely and different: accents, big brothers and being too much» of the reflection 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 (Pom, Australian slang, accent teasing), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Pom | punct |
| 2 | Pom | pom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 slang | nsubj |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Pom | punct |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 slang | cop |
| 5 | Australian | Australian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 slang | amod |
| 6 | slang | slang | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 curiosity | parataxis |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 teasing | punct |
| 8 | often | often | ADV | _ | 9 teasing | advmod |
| 9 | teasing | tease | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 slang | acl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 person | punct |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 person | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 person | det |
| 13 | British | British | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 person | amod |
| 14 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 teasing | obl |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 curiosity | punct |
| 16 | accent | accent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 teasing | compound |
| 17 | teasing | teasing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 curiosity | nsubj |
| 18 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 curiosity | cop |
| 19 | often | often | ADV | _ | 20 curiosity | advmod |
| 20 | curiosity | curiosity | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 21 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 curiosity | acl |
| 22 | badly | badly | ADV | Degree=Pos | 21 done | advmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 slang | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- neg
- teacher
- changed polarity=neg
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Pom | Australian slang | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | tease | gerund | Australian slang not said here | for a British person; often property | vn ferret-35.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | is a | present | accent teasing | curiosity | often property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | do | participle | curiosity not said here | badly property | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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:reflection:022-lonely-and-different-accents-big-brothers-and-being-too-much.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): R6-punct-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.
See the release 0.4.
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