Timetables: buses, trains, TV and the school day, sentence 21
Words people use: "flippin'" is a mild swear word (UK), "proper" means very (UK), "bruv" means brother or mate (London), "fixin' to" means about to (southern USA) and "can or not?" means "is it possible?" (Singapore).
Who acts: Words, flippin, proper, bruv, fixin · What happens: use, be, mean · To what, where: mild swear word, brother, Singapore · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Timetables: buses, trains, TV and the school day» 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 (Words, flippin, proper, bruv), 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 | nsubj |
| 2 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 use | nsubj |
| 3 | use | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 57 means | advcl |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 6 flippin | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 flippin | punct |
| 6 | flippin | flippin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 word | nsubj |
| 7 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 flippin | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 flippin | punct |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 word | cop |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 word | det |
| 11 | mild | mild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 word | amod |
| 12 | swear | swear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 word | compound |
| 13 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 use | parataxis |
| 14 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 15 UK | punct |
| 15 | UK | UK | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 word | appos |
| 16 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 15 UK | punct |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 means | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 proper | punct |
| 19 | proper | proper | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 means | nsubj |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 proper | punct |
| 21 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 swear | parataxis |
| 22 | very | very | ADV | _ | 21 means | advmod |
| 23 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 24 UK | punct |
| 24 | UK | UK | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 means | parataxis |
| 25 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 24 UK | punct |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 bruv | punct |
| 27 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 28 bruv | punct |
| 28 | bruv | bruv | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 means | nsubj |
| 29 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 28 bruv | punct |
| 30 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 means | ccomp |
| 31 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 means | obj |
| 32 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 33 mate | cc |
| 33 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 brother | conj |
| 34 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 35 London | punct |
| 35 | London | London | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 brother | appos |
| 36 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 35 London | punct |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 mild | punct |
| 38 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 39 fixin | punct |
| 39 | fixin | fixin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 means | nsubj |
| 40 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 39 fixin | punct |
| 41 | to | to | PART | _ | 3 use | obl |
| 42 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 43 means | punct |
| 43 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 use | parataxis |
| 44 | about | about | ADP | _ | 48 USA | case |
| 45 | to | to | ADP | _ | 44 about | fixed |
| 46 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 48 USA | punct |
| 47 | southern | southern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 48 USA | amod |
| 48 | USA | USA | PROPN | Number=Sing | 43 means | obl |
| 49 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 48 USA | punct |
| 50 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 52 can | cc |
| 51 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 52 can | punct |
| 52 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 use | advcl |
| 53 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 54 not | cc |
| 54 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 52 can | conj |
| 55 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 52 can | punct |
| 56 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 52 can | punct |
| 57 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 58 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 61 possible | punct |
| 59 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 61 possible | cop |
| 60 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 61 possible | nsubj |
| 61 | possible | possible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 57 means | ccomp |
| 62 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 61 possible | punct |
| 63 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 61 possible | punct |
| 64 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 65 Singapore | punct |
| 65 | Singapore | Singapore | PROPN | Number=Sing | 57 means | obl |
| 66 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 65 Singapore | punct |
| 67 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 57 means | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- character
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed form=decl, act=assert
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | use | present | Words | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is a | present | flippin | a mild swear word | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | mean | present | proper | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | mean | present | bruv | brother or mate | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brother=Topic | ||||
| 5 | mean | present | fixin | about southern USA | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 6 | mean | present | Singapore | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 7 | is in a quote | present | fixin | possible property | 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:104-timetables-buses-trains-school-day.lesson:21.
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 ×5, R6-punct-agree ×4, R7-rel-agree ×3. 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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