Saying sorry and making amends: Zacchaeus pays back, sentence 18
Slang check: "soz" means sorry; "k" in a text means OK, often a cold OK; "wee" (Belfast, Scotland) means little; "sweet as" (New Zealand) means fine.
Who acts: soz, Slang check, wee, New Zealand · What happens: mean · To what, where: little
This is a sentence of the lesson «Saying sorry and making amends: Zacchaeus pays back» 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 (soz, Slang check, wee, New Zealand), 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 | 16 means | nsubj |
| 3 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 7 means | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 soz | punct |
| 5 | soz | soz | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 means | nsubj |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 soz | punct |
| 7 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 means | parataxis |
| 8 | sorry | sorry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 means | xcomp |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 k | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 k | punct |
| 11 | k | k | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 means | nsubj |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 k | punct |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 text | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 text | det |
| 15 | text | text | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 means | obl |
| 16 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | OK | ok | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 means | xcomp |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 OK | punct |
| 19 | often | often | ADV | _ | 22 OK | advmod |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 OK | det |
| 21 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 OK | amod |
| 22 | OK | ok | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 means | conj |
| 23 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 32 means | punct |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 25 wee | punct |
| 25 | wee | wee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 means | nsubj |
| 26 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 25 wee | punct |
| 27 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 28 Belfast | punct |
| 28 | Belfast | belfast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 wee | appos |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 Scotland | punct |
| 30 | Scotland | Scotland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 Belfast | appos |
| 31 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 28 Belfast | punct |
| 32 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 OK | parataxis |
| 33 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 means | obj |
| 34 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 36 sweet | punct |
| 35 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 36 sweet | punct |
| 36 | sweet | sweet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 means | parataxis |
| 37 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 43 means | mark |
| 38 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 43 means | punct |
| 39 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 41 Zealand | punct |
| 40 | New | New | PROPN | _ | 41 Zealand | flat |
| 41 | Zealand | Zealand | PROPN | Number=Sing | 43 means | nsubj |
| 42 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 41 Zealand | punct |
| 43 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 36 sweet | advcl |
| 44 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 43 means | xcomp |
| 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 | soz | sorry property | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | mean | present | Slang check | in a text; ok property | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot in text=Attribute | ||||
| 3 | mean | present | wee | little | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | mean | present | New Zealand | fine property | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |
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:090-saying-sorry-and-making-amends-zacchaeus-pays-back.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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×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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