Late and early: being where you need to be on time, sentence 27
Words people use: "I'm dead" here means "I'm in big trouble", "sharp" means exactly on time, "keen" means eager, "my backside!" means "I don't believe you" (rude-ish, UK), "grand" means fine (Ireland) and "tamping" means furious (Wales).
Who acts: people, 10 minutes, Words, sharp, keen, backside · What happens: use, be, mean, not believe · To what, where: Words, big trouble, eager, you, Ireland · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Late and early: being where you need to be on 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, 10 minutes, Words, sharp), 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 | 11 means | nsubj |
| 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 dead | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 dead | punct |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 dead | nsubj |
| 7 | 'm | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 dead | cop |
| 8 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 use | advcl |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 dead | punct |
| 10 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 11 means | advmod |
| 11 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 trouble | punct |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 trouble | nsubj |
| 14 | 'm | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 trouble | cop |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 trouble | case |
| 16 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 trouble | amod |
| 17 | trouble | trouble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 means | ccomp |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 trouble | punct |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 means | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 sharp | punct |
| 21 | sharp | sharp | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 means | nsubj |
| 22 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 sharp | punct |
| 23 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 means | parataxis |
| 24 | exactly | exactly | ADV | _ | 23 means | advmod |
| 25 | on | on | ADP | _ | 26 time | case |
| 26 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 means | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 time | punct |
| 28 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 26 time | punct |
| 29 | keen | keen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 means | nsubj |
| 30 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 29 keen | punct |
| 31 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 means | conj |
| 32 | eager | eager | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 means | obj |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 means | punct |
| 34 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 means | punct |
| 35 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 36 backside | nmod:poss |
| 36 | backside | backside | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 means | nsubj |
| 37 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 23 means | punct |
| 38 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 means | punct |
| 39 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 means | parataxis |
| 40 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 44 believe | punct |
| 41 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 44 believe | nsubj |
| 42 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 44 believe | aux |
| 43 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 44 believe | advmod |
| 44 | believe | believe | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 39 means | ccomp |
| 45 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 44 believe | obj |
| 46 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 44 believe | punct |
| 47 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 48 rude | punct |
| 48 | rude | rude | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 means | ccomp |
| 49 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 50 ish | punct |
| 50 | ish | ish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 48 rude | list |
| 51 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 52 UK | punct |
| 52 | UK | UK | PROPN | Number=Sing | 48 rude | obl |
| 53 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 48 rude | punct |
| 54 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 58 means | punct |
| 55 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 56 grand | punct |
| 56 | grand | grand | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 58 means | nsubj |
| 57 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 56 grand | punct |
| 58 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 means | parataxis |
| 59 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 58 means | xcomp |
| 60 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 61 Ireland | punct |
| 61 | Ireland | Ireland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 58 means | obj |
| 62 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 61 Ireland | punct |
| 63 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 67 means | cc |
| 64 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 65 tamping | punct |
| 65 | tamping | tamping | NOUN | Number=Sing | 67 means | nsubj |
| 66 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 65 tamping | punct |
| 67 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 58 means | conj |
| 68 | furious | furious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 67 means | conj |
| 69 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 70 Wales | punct |
| 70 | Wales | Wales | PROPN | Number=Sing | 68 furious | appos |
| 71 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 70 Wales | punct |
| 72 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 means | 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 not said here | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Patient | ||||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | 10 minutes on 190 school days = minute | dead property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | mean | present | Words | here | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | is in a quote | present | 10 minutes on 190 school days = minute | big trouble | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | mean | present | sharp | time | exactly property | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | |||
| 6 | mean | present | keen | eager | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eager=Topic | ||||
| 7 | mean | present | my backside | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 8 | not believe in a quote | present · do-support | 10 minutes on 190 school days = minute | you | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus | ||||
| 9 | mean | present | grand | Ireland | fine property | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ireland=Topic | |||
| 10 | mean | present | tamping | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=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:106-late-and-early-being-on-time.lesson:27.
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 ×2, R8-pos-agree ×4. 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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