How old are you, where from, and meet the family, sentence 12

MAma means mum; jokes about someone's mum can upset people, so they are best avoided.

Who acts: MAma, jokes · What happens: mean, upset, avoid · To what, where: mum, people, jokes

This is a sentence of the lesson «How old are you, where from, and meet the family» 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 (MAma, jokes), 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	MAma	mama	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 means	nsubj
2	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 means	obj
4	;	;	PUNCT	_	5 jokes	punct
5	jokes	joke	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 upset	nsubj
6	about	about	ADP	_	9 mum	case
7	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	9 mum	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 someone	case
9	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 jokes	nmod
10	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 upset	aux
11	upset	upset	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 means	parataxis
12	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 upset	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 avoided	punct
14	so	so	ADV	_	18 avoided	advmod
15	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 avoided	nsubj:pass
16	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 avoided	aux:pass
17	best	well	ADV	Degree=Sup	18 avoided	advmod
18	avoided	avoid	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 upset	parataxis
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 means	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	mean	present	MAma	mum		vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mum=Topic
2	upset	can	jokes about someone's mum	people		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus people=Experiencer
3	avoid	present · passive		jokes = joke	well property	vn avoid-52 «NP V NP.location»: subject=Location

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:005-how-old-where-from-meet-the-family.lesson:12.

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, 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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