White lies: the ugly jumper and the bad drawing, sentence 19
Slang check: "mid" means average, nothing special; "boss" in Liverpool means great; "wicked" in Boston means very; "pet" in the North of England is a kind word like "love".
Who acts: mid, Slang check, wicked, North England · What happens: mean, be · To what, where: average, great, pet, kind word
This is a sentence of the lesson «White lies: the ugly jumper and the bad drawing» 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 (mid, Slang check, wicked, North England), 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 | 18 means | nsubj |
| 3 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 7 means | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 mid | punct |
| 5 | mid | mid | X | _ | 7 means | nsubj |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 mid | punct |
| 7 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 check | parataxis |
| 8 | average | average | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 means | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 nothing | punct |
| 10 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 2 check | appos |
| 11 | special | special | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 nothing | amod |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 boss | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 boss | punct |
| 14 | boss | boss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 means | nsubj |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 boss | punct |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 Liverpool | case |
| 17 | Liverpool | Liverpool | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 boss | nmod |
| 18 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 19 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 means | obj |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 wicked | punct |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 wicked | punct |
| 22 | wicked | wicked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 means | nsubj |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 wicked | punct |
| 24 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 26 means | mark |
| 25 | Boston | Boston | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 wicked | nmod |
| 26 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 means | parataxis |
| 27 | very | very | ADV | _ | 26 means | advmod |
| 28 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 30 pet | punct |
| 29 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 30 pet | punct |
| 30 | pet | pet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 means | obj |
| 31 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 30 pet | punct |
| 32 | in | in | ADP | _ | 40 word | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 North | det |
| 34 | North | North | PROPN | Number=Sing | 36 England | compound |
| 35 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 England | case |
| 36 | England | England | PROPN | Number=Sing | 40 word | nsubj |
| 37 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 40 word | cop |
| 38 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 40 word | det |
| 39 | kind | kind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 word | compound |
| 40 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 means | obl |
| 41 | like | like | ADP | _ | 43 love | case |
| 42 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 43 love | punct |
| 43 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 word | nmod |
| 44 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 43 love | punct |
| 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 | mid | average | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent average=Topic | ||||
| 2 | mean | present | Slang check | great | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent great=Topic | ||||
| 3 | mean | present | wicked Boston | pet | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pet=Topic | ||||
| 4 | is | present | North England | a kind word | like love | 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:religion-ethics:083-white-lies-the-ugly-jumper-and-the-bad-drawing.lesson:19.
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 ×5, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2. 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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