Good secrets and bad secrets, sentence 21
Slang check: "snitch" means tell on someone; "bruv" (London) means mate or brother; "kk" in a text means OK.
Who acts: snitch, bruv, kk · What happens: mean · To what, where: tell, mate, OK
This is a sentence of the lesson «Good secrets and bad secrets» 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 (snitch, bruv, kk), 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 | root | root |
| 3 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 7 means | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 snitch | punct |
| 5 | snitch | snitch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 means | nsubj |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 snitch | punct |
| 7 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 check | parataxis |
| 8 | tell | tell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 means | obj |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 someone | case |
| 10 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 8 tell | obl |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 bruv | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 bruv | punct |
| 13 | bruv | bruv | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 means | nsubj |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 bruv | punct |
| 15 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 16 London | punct |
| 16 | London | London | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 means | nsubj |
| 17 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 16 London | punct |
| 18 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 someone | acl:relcl |
| 19 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 means | obj |
| 20 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 21 brother | cc |
| 21 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 mate | conj |
| 22 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 kk | punct |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 24 kk | punct |
| 24 | kk | kk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 means | nsubj |
| 25 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 24 kk | punct |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 text | case |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 text | det |
| 28 | text | text | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 means | obl |
| 29 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 someone | acl:relcl |
| 30 | OK | ok | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 means | obj |
| 31 | . | . | 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 | snitch | tell | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tell=Topic | ||||
| 2 | mean | present | bruv | mate or brother | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mate=Topic | ||||
| 3 | mean | present | kk | OK | in a text | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot ok=Theme in text=Attribute |
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:087-good-secrets-and-bad-secrets.lesson:21.
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 ×3, 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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