Pretend, cover stories and lies that become habits, sentence 18

Slang check: "fixin' to" (Texas) means about to; "slaps" means is great; "my lover" in Cornwall and the West Country is a friendly word for dear.

Who acts: Slang check, slaps · What happens: fixin, mean, be · To what, where: friendly word · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Pretend, cover stories and lies that become habits» 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, slaps), 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	12 means	nsubj
3	:	:	PUNCT	_	5 fixin	punct
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 fixin	punct
5	fixin	fixin	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 check	appos
6	'	'	PUNCT	_	5 fixin	punct
7	to	to	PART	_	5 fixin	obl
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 fixin	punct
9	(	(	PUNCT	_	10 Texas	punct
10	Texas	Texas	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 check	appos
11	)	)	PUNCT	_	10 Texas	punct
12	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	about	about	ADP	_	12 means	ccomp
14	to	to	ADP	_	13 about	fixed
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 means	punct
16	"	"	PUNCT	_	17 slaps	punct
17	slaps	slap	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 means	nsubj
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	17 slaps	punct
19	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 means	parataxis
20	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 great	cop
21	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 means	ccomp
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 lover	punct
23	"	"	PUNCT	_	25 lover	punct
24	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 lover	nmod:poss
25	lover	lover	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 means	conj
26	"	"	PUNCT	_	25 lover	punct
27	in	in	ADP	_	28 Cornwall	case
28	Cornwall	Cornwall	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 lover	nmod
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 word	cc
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 Country	det
31	West	West	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 Country	compound
32	Country	Country	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 Cornwall	conj
33	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	36 word	cop
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 word	det
35	friendly	friendly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 word	amod
36	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 Cornwall	conj
37	for	for	ADP	_	38 dear	case
38	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 word	nmod
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 means	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: pos
teacher: changed act=assert

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	fixin in a quote	infinitive				tree rules
2	mean	present	Slang check			vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
3	mean	present	slaps			vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
4	is	present			great property	tree rules
5	is a	present	slaps not said here	a friendly word	for dear	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:085-pretend-cover-stories-and-lies-that-become-habits.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, 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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