Friendly name-calling and real insults (meanings only), sentence 8
"tormoz", literally "brake", means a slowcoach, someone slow to get a joke; it is mildly mean but fine between pals.
Who acts: tormoz · What happens: mean, get, be · To what, where: slowcoach, joke
This is a sentence of the lesson «Friendly name-calling and real insults (meanings only)» of the ukrainian street 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 (tormoz), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 tormoz | punct |
| 2 | tormoz | tormoz | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 means | nsubj |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 tormoz | punct |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 brake | punct |
| 5 | literally | literally | ADV | _ | 7 brake | advmod |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 brake | punct |
| 7 | brake | brake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 tormoz | appos |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 brake | punct |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 tormoz | punct |
| 10 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 slowcoach | det |
| 12 | slowcoach | slowcoach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 means | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 someone | punct |
| 14 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 12 slowcoach | appos |
| 15 | slow | slow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 someone | amod |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 get | mark |
| 17 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 slow | advcl |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 joke | det |
| 19 | joke | joke | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 get | obj |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 mean | punct |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 mean | nsubj |
| 22 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 mean | cop |
| 23 | mildly | mildly | ADV | _ | 24 mean | advmod |
| 24 | mean | mean | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 means | parataxis |
| 25 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 26 fine | cc |
| 26 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 mean | conj |
| 27 | between | between | ADP | _ | 28 pals | case |
| 28 | pals | pal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 fine | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 means | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- other
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | tormoz | a slowcoach | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent slowcoach=Topic | ||||
| 2 | get | to-infinitive | tormoz not said here | a joke | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer joke=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | is | present | tormoz | mean, mildly property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | be | tormoz not said here | between pals | 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:ukrainian-street:026-friendly-name-calling-and-real-insults.lesson:8.
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 ×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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