Trust that breaks and takes long to mend, sentence 18
Slang in this lesson: «sus» means «suspicious»; in Scotland «a quid» is a pound, «the morra» means «tomorrow» and «dinnae fash» means «don't worry»; «gutted» means very upset; in Australia a «bludger» is someone who lets others do the work, and «zip» means nothing.
Who acts: sus, quid, morra, others · What happens: mean, be, fash, not worry, gut, let · To what, where: suspicious, pound, Scotland, someone, Australia, work · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Trust that breaks and takes long to mend» 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 (sus, quid, morra, others), 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 | 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 Slang | obl |
| 5 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 1 Slang | punct |
| 6 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 7 sus | punct |
| 7 | sus | sus | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 means | nsubj |
| 8 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 7 sus | punct |
| 9 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Slang | parataxis |
| 10 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 11 suspicious | punct |
| 11 | suspicious | suspicious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 means | obj |
| 12 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 11 suspicious | punct |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 « | punct |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 Scotland | case |
| 15 | Scotland | Scotland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 pound | obl |
| 16 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 18 quid | punct |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 quid | det |
| 18 | quid | quid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 pound | nsubj |
| 19 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 18 quid | punct |
| 20 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 pound | cop |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 pound | det |
| 22 | pound | pound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 means | parataxis |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 means | punct |
| 24 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 26 morra | punct |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 morra | det |
| 26 | morra | morra | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 means | nsubj |
| 27 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 26 morra | punct |
| 28 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 pound | parataxis |
| 29 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 30 tomorrow | punct |
| 30 | tomorrow | tomorrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 means | obj |
| 31 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 30 tomorrow | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 fash | cc |
| 33 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 34 dinnae | punct |
| 34 | dinnae | dinnae | X | Foreign=Yes | 35 fash | dep |
| 35 | fash | fash | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 means | conj |
| 36 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 35 fash | punct |
| 37 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 35 fash | parataxis |
| 38 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 41 worry | punct |
| 39 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 41 worry | aux |
| 40 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 41 worry | advmod |
| 41 | worry | worry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 37 means | ccomp |
| 42 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 41 worry | punct |
| 43 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 45 gutted | punct |
| 44 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 45 gutted | punct |
| 45 | gutted | gut | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 35 fash | advcl |
| 46 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 45 gutted | punct |
| 47 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 45 gutted | conj |
| 48 | very | very | ADV | _ | 49 upset | advmod |
| 49 | upset | upset | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 47 means | xcomp |
| 50 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 58 someone | punct |
| 51 | in | in | ADP | _ | 52 Australia | case |
| 52 | Australia | Australia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 58 someone | obl |
| 53 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 55 bludger | det |
| 54 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 55 bludger | punct |
| 55 | bludger | bludger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 52 Australia | appos |
| 56 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 55 bludger | punct |
| 57 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 58 someone | cop |
| 58 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 35 fash | obl |
| 59 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 60 lets | nsubj |
| 60 | lets | let | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 58 someone | acl:relcl |
| 61 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 62 do | nsubj |
| 62 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 60 lets | xcomp |
| 63 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 64 work | det |
| 64 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 62 do | obj |
| 65 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 68 zip | punct |
| 66 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 68 zip | cc |
| 67 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 68 zip | punct |
| 68 | zip | zip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 58 someone | conj |
| 69 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 68 zip | punct |
| 70 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 58 someone | acl:relcl |
| 71 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 70 means | obj |
| 72 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Slang | 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 | sus | suspicious | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent suspicious=Topic | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | a quid | a pound | Scotland | tree rules | |||
| 3 | mean | present | the morra | tomorrow | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | fash in a quote | infinitive | the morra not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | mean | present | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 6 | not worry in a quote | infinitive · do-support | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 7 | gut in a quote | participle | the morra not said here | vn pit-10.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 8 | mean | present | the morra not said here | upset property | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 9 | is a | present | someone | Australia | tree rules | ||||
| 10 | let | present | tree rules | ||||||
| 11 | do | infinitive | others | the work | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent work=Eventuality | ||||
| 12 | mean | present | nothing | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=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:082-trust-that-breaks-and-takes-long-to-mend.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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×3, R7-rel-agree ×3. 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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