Morning, afternoon and the 24-hour clock, sentence 22
Words people use: "-ish" means roughly ("eight-ish" is about 8), "half eight" is 8:30 in Britain, and "graveyard shift" is slang for a very late night shift.
Who acts: people, ish, eight ish, eight, graveyard shift · What happens: use, mean, be · To what, where: Words, 8, 8:30, Britain, slang
This is a sentence of the lesson «Morning, afternoon and the 24-hour clock» 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, ish, eight ish, eight), 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 | 3 use | obj |
| 2 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 use | nsubj |
| 3 | use | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 9 means | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 ish | punct |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 ish | punct |
| 7 | ish | ish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 means | nsubj |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 ish | punct |
| 9 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 use | parataxis |
| 10 | roughly | roughly | ADV | _ | 9 means | advmod |
| 11 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 19 8 | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 ish | punct |
| 13 | eight | eight | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 ish | nummod |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 eight | punct |
| 15 | ish | ish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 8 | nsubj |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 ish | punct |
| 17 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 8 | cop |
| 18 | about | about | ADV | _ | 19 8 | advmod |
| 19 | 8 | 8 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 9 means | obl |
| 20 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 19 8 | punct |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 use | punct |
| 22 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 use | punct |
| 23 | half | half | DET | _ | 24 eight | det:predet |
| 24 | eight | eight | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 27 8:30 | nsubj |
| 25 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 24 eight | punct |
| 26 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 8:30 | cop |
| 27 | 8:30 | 8:30 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 use | parataxis |
| 28 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 Britain | case |
| 29 | Britain | Britain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 8:30 | nmod |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 slang | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 slang | cc |
| 32 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 34 shift | punct |
| 33 | graveyard | graveyard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 shift | compound |
| 34 | shift | shift | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 slang | nsubj |
| 35 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 34 shift | punct |
| 36 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 37 slang | cop |
| 37 | slang | slang | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 use | parataxis |
| 38 | for | for | ADP | _ | 43 shift | case |
| 39 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 43 shift | det |
| 40 | very | very | ADV | _ | 41 late | advmod |
| 41 | late | late | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 43 shift | amod |
| 42 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 shift | compound |
| 43 | shift | shift | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 slang | obl |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 23 half | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | use | present | people | Words | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Patient | ||||
| 2 | mean | present | ish | roughly property | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | is a | present | eight ish | 8 | about property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | is a | present | half eight | 8:30 | Britain | tree rules | |||
| 5 | is a | present | graveyard shift | slang | for a late night shift | 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:world:103-morning-afternoon-24-hour-clock.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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2, 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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