Owning up: the broken vase and the lost library book, sentence 19
Slang check: "eh" is a Canadian word added to the end of a sentence; "salty" means annoyed; "wisnae" (Scotland) means wasn't; Tim Tams are Australian chocolate biscuits.
Who acts: eh, Slang check, wisnae, Tim Tams · What happens: be, add, mean · To what, where: Canadian word, Australian chocolate biscuits
This is a sentence of the lesson «Owning up: the broken vase and the lost library book» 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 (eh, Slang check, wisnae, Tim Tams), 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 | 22 means | nsubj |
| 3 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 10 word | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 eh | punct |
| 5 | eh | eh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 word | nsubj |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 eh | punct |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 word | cop |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 word | det |
| 9 | Canadian | Canadian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 word | amod |
| 10 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 check | appos |
| 11 | added | add | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 word | acl |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 end | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 end | det |
| 14 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 added | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 sentence | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 sentence | det |
| 17 | sentence | sentence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 end | nmod |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 salty | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 salty | punct |
| 20 | salty | salty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 word | appos |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 salty | punct |
| 22 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 23 | annoyed | annoyed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 means | xcomp |
| 24 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 31 means | punct |
| 25 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 26 wisnae | punct |
| 26 | wisnae | wisnae | X | Foreign=Yes | 31 means | nsubj |
| 27 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 26 wisnae | punct |
| 28 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 29 Scotland | punct |
| 29 | Scotland | Scotland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 wisnae | appos |
| 30 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 29 Scotland | punct |
| 31 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 means | parataxis |
| 32 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 n't | cop |
| 33 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 31 means | ccomp |
| 34 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 40 biscuits | punct |
| 35 | Tim | Tim | PROPN | Number=Sing | 36 Tams | compound |
| 36 | Tams | tam | NOUN | Number=Plur | 40 biscuits | nsubj |
| 37 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 40 biscuits | cop |
| 38 | Australian | Australian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 biscuits | amod |
| 39 | chocolate | chocolate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 biscuits | compound |
| 40 | biscuits | biscuit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 means | parataxis |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 22 means | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- pos
- teacher
- changed voice=narrator
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | eh | a Canadian word | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | add speech: assert | participle | a Canadian word not said here | to the end of a sentence | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle PP»: agent=Patient to end=Co-Patient | ||||
| 3 | mean | present | Slang check | annoyed property | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | mean | present | wisnae | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | is a | present | Tim Tams | Australian chocolate biscuits | 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:089-owning-up-the-broken-vase-and-the-lost-library-book.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): 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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