Alarms, stopwatches and how long a second is, sentence 20
Words people use: "ages" means a long time, "in your dreams" means no way, "mid" means just average, nothing special, "no cap" means "no lie" and "I'm dead" means "that's so funny".
Who acts: people, ages, cap, Dentists, that, your · What happens: use, mean, be, dream · To what, where: Words, way, average, lie · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Alarms, stopwatches and how long a second is» 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, ages, cap, Dentists), 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 | _ | 6 ages | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 ages | punct |
| 6 | ages | age | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 means | nsubj |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 ages | punct |
| 8 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 use | parataxis |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 time | det |
| 10 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 time | amod |
| 11 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 means | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 use | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 use | punct |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 dreams | case |
| 15 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 dreams | nmod:poss |
| 16 | dreams | dream | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 means | obl |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 dreams | punct |
| 18 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 use | parataxis |
| 19 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 20 way | det |
| 20 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 means | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 use | punct |
| 22 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 mid | punct |
| 23 | mid | mid | X | _ | 25 means | mark |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 mid | punct |
| 25 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 use | parataxis |
| 26 | just | just | ADV | _ | 27 average | advmod |
| 27 | average | average | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 means | obj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 nothing | punct |
| 29 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 3 use | parataxis |
| 30 | special | special | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 nothing | amod |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 use | punct |
| 32 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 use | punct |
| 33 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 34 cap | det |
| 34 | cap | cap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 means | nsubj |
| 35 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 34 cap | punct |
| 36 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 use | parataxis |
| 37 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 39 lie | punct |
| 38 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 39 lie | det |
| 39 | lie | lie | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 means | obj |
| 40 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 39 lie | punct |
| 41 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 means | cc |
| 42 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 45 dead | punct |
| 43 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 45 dead | nsubj |
| 44 | 'm | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 45 dead | cop |
| 45 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 means | conj |
| 46 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 45 dead | punct |
| 47 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 45 dead | parataxis |
| 48 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 52 funny | punct |
| 49 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 52 funny | nsubj |
| 50 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 52 funny | cop |
| 51 | so | so | ADV | _ | 52 funny | advmod |
| 52 | funny | funny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 47 means | ccomp |
| 53 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 52 funny | punct |
| 54 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 use | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | 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 | ages | time | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | mean | present | no way | in your dreams | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot way=Theme in dream=Attribute | ||||
| 4 | mean | present | average | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent average=Topic | |||||
| 5 | mean | present | no cap | no lie | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lie=Topic | ||||
| 6 | is in a quote | present | Dentists = dentist | dead property | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | mean | present | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 8 | is in a quote | present | that | funny property | tree rules | ||||
| 9 | dream in a quote | your | nom dream «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
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:105-alarms-stopwatches-how-long-a-second-is.lesson:20.
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 ×3, R6-punct-agree ×7, 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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