Olympiad: fair or unfair, chains of reasons and dilemmas ★★★, sentence 18
Slang check: "bare" (London) means lots of; "mardy" (Midlands, North) means sulky; "sus" means suspicious; "y'all" means you all; "no cap" means no lie.
Who acts: Slang check, North, sus, y'all, cap · What happens: mean · To what, where: lots, mardy Midlands, you, lie
This is a sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: fair or unfair, chains of reasons and dilemmas ★★★» of the religion ethics 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 (Slang check, North, sus, y'all), 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 | Slang | slang | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 check | compound |
| 2 | check | check | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 means | nsubj |
| 3 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 5 bare | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 bare | punct |
| 5 | bare | bare | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 means | nsubj |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 bare | punct |
| 7 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 8 London | punct |
| 8 | London | London | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 bare | appos |
| 9 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 8 London | punct |
| 10 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | lots | lot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 means | obj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 lots | nmod |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 Midlands | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 mardy | punct |
| 15 | mardy | mardy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 Midlands | compound |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 mardy | punct |
| 17 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 18 Midlands | punct |
| 18 | Midlands | midland | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 means | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 North | punct |
| 20 | North | North | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 means | nsubj |
| 21 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 20 North | punct |
| 22 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 Midlands | acl:relcl |
| 23 | sulky | sulky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 means | xcomp |
| 24 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 28 means | punct |
| 25 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 26 sus | punct |
| 26 | sus | sus | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 means | nsubj |
| 27 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 26 sus | punct |
| 28 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 means | parataxis |
| 29 | suspicious | suspicious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 means | xcomp |
| 30 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 34 means | punct |
| 31 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 32 y'all | punct |
| 32 | y'all | y'all | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 means | nsubj |
| 33 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 32 y'all | punct |
| 34 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 means | parataxis |
| 35 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 34 means | obj |
| 36 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 35 you | det |
| 37 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 42 means | punct |
| 38 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 40 cap | punct |
| 39 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 40 cap | det |
| 40 | cap | cap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 means | nsubj |
| 41 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 40 cap | punct |
| 42 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 34 means | conj |
| 43 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 44 lie | det |
| 44 | lie | lie | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 means | obj |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 check | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | Slang check | lots | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | mean | present | North | mardy Midlands not said here | sulky property | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent midland=Topic | |||
| 3 | mean | present | sus | suspicious property | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | mean | present | y'all | you | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Topic | ||||
| 5 | mean | present | no cap | no lie | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lie=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:religion-ethics:103-olympiad-fair-or-unfair-chains-of-reasons-and-dilemmas.lesson:18.
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. 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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