How long until? Counting on across the hour, sentence 24
Words people use: "cos" means because, "wicked" means very (New England, USA), "yeah nah" means no (Australia, New Zealand), "sweet as" means great (New Zealand) "servo" means a petrol station (Australia), "sick" means great and "no cap" means "no lie".
Who acts: people, cos, wicked, sweet, servo, sick · What happens: use, mean · To what, where: Words, Australia, great, petrol station, lie
This is a sentence of the lesson «How long until? Counting on across the hour» 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, cos, wicked, sweet), 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 | dislocated |
| 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 | _ | 6 cos | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 cos | punct |
| 6 | cos | cos | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 means | nsubj |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 cos | punct |
| 8 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 8 means | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 wicked | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 wicked | punct |
| 12 | wicked | wicked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 means | nsubj |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 wicked | punct |
| 14 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 means | parataxis |
| 15 | very | very | ADV | _ | 14 means | advmod |
| 16 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 18 England | punct |
| 17 | New | New | PROPN | _ | 18 England | amod |
| 18 | England | England | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 means | parataxis |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 USA | punct |
| 20 | USA | USA | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 England | appos |
| 21 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 18 England | punct |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 means | punct |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 27 means | punct |
| 24 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 27 means | discourse |
| 25 | nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 27 means | discourse |
| 26 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 25 nah | punct |
| 27 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 means | parataxis |
| 28 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 30 Australia | det |
| 29 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 30 Australia | punct |
| 30 | Australia | Australia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 means | obj |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 Zealand | punct |
| 32 | New | New | PROPN | _ | 33 Zealand | amod |
| 33 | Zealand | Zealand | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 Australia | conj |
| 34 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 30 Australia | punct |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 means | punct |
| 36 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 means | punct |
| 37 | sweet | sweet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 means | nsubj |
| 38 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 37 sweet | fixed |
| 39 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 40 means | punct |
| 40 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 means | parataxis |
| 41 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 means | obj |
| 42 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 44 Zealand | punct |
| 43 | New | New | PROPN | _ | 44 Zealand | amod |
| 44 | Zealand | Zealand | PROPN | Number=Sing | 41 great | appos |
| 45 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 44 Zealand | punct |
| 46 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 47 servo | punct |
| 47 | servo | servo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 49 means | nsubj |
| 48 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 47 servo | punct |
| 49 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 means | parataxis |
| 50 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 52 station | det |
| 51 | petrol | petrol | NOUN | Number=Sing | 52 station | compound |
| 52 | station | station | NOUN | Number=Sing | 49 means | obj |
| 53 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 54 Australia | punct |
| 54 | Australia | Australia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 52 station | appos |
| 55 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 54 Australia | punct |
| 56 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 60 means | punct |
| 57 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 58 sick | punct |
| 58 | sick | sick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 60 means | nsubj |
| 59 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 58 sick | punct |
| 60 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 means | parataxis |
| 61 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 60 means | xcomp |
| 62 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 67 means | cc |
| 63 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 65 cap | punct |
| 64 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 65 cap | det |
| 65 | cap | cap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 67 means | nsubj |
| 66 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 65 cap | punct |
| 67 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 49 means | conj |
| 68 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 70 lie | punct |
| 69 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 70 lie | det |
| 70 | lie | lie | NOUN | Number=Sing | 67 means | obj |
| 71 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 70 lie | punct |
| 72 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 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 | mean | present | cos | Words dislocated | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent because=Topic | ||||
| 3 | mean | present | wicked | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | mean | present | no Australia and New Zealand | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent australia=Topic | |||||
| 5 | mean | present | sweet | great | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent great=Topic | ||||
| 6 | mean | present | servo | a petrol station | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent station=Topic | ||||
| 7 | mean | present | sick | great property | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 8 | mean | present | no cap | no lie | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lie=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:107-how-long-until-counting-on-across-the-hour.lesson:24.
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 ×3, R8-pos-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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