Quarter past, quarter to, and how people really say the time, sentence 22
Words people use: "mam" means mum (Ireland, the north of England, Wales), "faffing" means wasting time on little things, "muppet" means a silly person, "howay" means "come on" (north-east England) and "yinz" means "you all" (Pittsburgh, USA).
Who acts: people, mam, faffing, muppet, howay, yinz · What happens: use, mean, waste, come on · To what, where: Words, mum, little things, silly person, east England, you · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Quarter past, quarter to, and how people really say the time» of the world 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 (people, mam, faffing, muppet), 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 | Words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 means | dep |
| 2 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 use | nsubj |
| 3 | use | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Words | acl:relcl |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 8 means | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 mam | punct |
| 6 | mam | mam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 means | nsubj |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 mam | punct |
| 8 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | mum | mum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 means | obj |
| 10 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 11 Ireland | punct |
| 11 | Ireland | Ireland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 mum | appos |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 north | punct |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 north | det |
| 14 | north | north | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 Ireland | appos |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 England | case |
| 16 | England | England | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 north | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 Wales | punct |
| 18 | Wales | Wales | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 England | conj |
| 19 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 11 Ireland | punct |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 means | punct |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 faffing | punct |
| 22 | faffing | faff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 means | nsubj |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 faffing | punct |
| 24 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 means | parataxis |
| 25 | wasting | waste | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 24 means | xcomp |
| 26 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 wasting | obj |
| 27 | on | on | ADP | _ | 29 things | case |
| 28 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 things | amod |
| 29 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 wasting | obl |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 means | punct |
| 31 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 32 muppet | punct |
| 32 | muppet | muppet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 means | nsubj |
| 33 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 32 muppet | punct |
| 34 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 means | parataxis |
| 35 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 37 person | det |
| 36 | silly | silly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 person | amod |
| 37 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 means | obj |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 means | punct |
| 39 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 40 howay | punct |
| 40 | howay | howay | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 means | nsubj |
| 41 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 40 howay | punct |
| 42 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 means | parataxis |
| 43 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 44 come | punct |
| 44 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 42 means | ccomp |
| 45 | on | on | ADV | _ | 44 come | compound:prt |
| 46 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 44 come | punct |
| 47 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 51 England | punct |
| 48 | north | north | ADV | _ | 50 east | advmod |
| 49 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 48 north | punct |
| 50 | east | east | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 51 England | amod |
| 51 | England | England | PROPN | Number=Sing | 42 means | obj |
| 52 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 51 England | punct |
| 53 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 57 means | cc |
| 54 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 55 yinz | punct |
| 55 | yinz | yinz | NOUN | Number=Sing | 57 means | nsubj |
| 56 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 55 yinz | punct |
| 57 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 42 means | conj |
| 58 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 59 you | punct |
| 59 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 57 means | obj |
| 60 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 59 you | nmod:unmarked |
| 61 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 63 Pittsburgh | punct |
| 62 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 63 Pittsburgh | punct |
| 63 | Pittsburgh | Pittsburgh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 60 all | nmod |
| 64 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 65 USA | punct |
| 65 | USA | USA | PROPN | Number=Sing | 63 Pittsburgh | nmod:unmarked |
| 66 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 63 Pittsburgh | punct |
| 67 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 42 means | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed polarity=none
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | use | present | people | Words not said here | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Patient | ||||
| 2 | mean | present | mam | mum | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mum=Topic | ||||
| 3 | mean | present | faffing | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | waste not said to happen | gerund | faffing not said here | time | on little things goal | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent on thing=Goal | |||
| 5 | mean | present | muppet | a silly person | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent person=Topic | ||||
| 6 | mean | present | howay | east England | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | come on in a quote | infinitive | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 8 | mean | present | yinz | you | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Topic |
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:world:102-quarter-past-quarter-to-saying-the-time.lesson:22.
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 ×4, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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