How long since? Counting back, sentence 21

Words people use: "ages" and "donkey's years" mean a long time, "cuppa" is a cup of tea, "gasping" means desperate for a drink, "kip" means sleep, "our kid" means my brother or sister (Manchester) and "mardy" means grumpy (north and Midlands of England).

Who acts: people, cup, kip, kid, mardy · What happens: use, mean, be · To what, where: ages, cup, sleep, brother

This is a sentence of the lesson «How long since? Counting back» 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, cup, kip, kid), 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	47 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 ages	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 ages	punct
6	ages	age	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 use	obj
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 ages	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 years	cc
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 years	punct
10	donkey	donkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 years	nmod:poss
11	's	's	PART	_	10 donkey	case
12	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 ages	conj
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 years	punct
14	mean	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 use	parataxis
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 time	det
16	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 time	amod
17	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 mean	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 cuppa	punct
19	"	"	PUNCT	_	20 cuppa	punct
20	cuppa	cuppa	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 time	appos
21	"	"	PUNCT	_	20 cuppa	punct
22	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 cup	cop
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 cup	det
24	cup	cup	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 means	nsubj
25	of	of	ADP	_	26 tea	case
26	tea	tea	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 cup	nmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 gasping	punct
28	"	"	PUNCT	_	29 gasping	punct
29	gasping	gasping	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 means	nsubj
30	"	"	PUNCT	_	29 gasping	punct
31	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 use	parataxis
32	desperate	desperate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 means	xcomp
33	for	for	ADP	_	35 drink	case
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 drink	det
35	drink	drink	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 desperate	obl
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 kip	punct
37	"	"	PUNCT	_	38 kip	punct
38	kip	kip	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 means	nsubj
39	"	"	PUNCT	_	38 kip	punct
40	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 means	parataxis
41	sleep	sleep	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 means	obj
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 use	punct
43	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 use	punct
44	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	45 kid	nmod:poss
45	kid	kid	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 means	nsubj
46	"	"	PUNCT	_	45 kid	punct
47	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
48	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	49 brother	nmod:poss
49	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 means	obj
50	or	or	CCONJ	_	51 sister	cc
51	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 brother	conj
52	(	(	PUNCT	_	53 Manchester	punct
53	Manchester	Manchester	PROPN	Number=Sing	49 brother	appos
54	)	)	PUNCT	_	53 Manchester	punct
55	and	and	CCONJ	_	59 means	cc
56	"	"	PUNCT	_	57 mardy	punct
57	mardy	mardy	NOUN	Number=Sing	59 means	nsubj
58	"	"	PUNCT	_	57 mardy	punct
59	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	47 means	conj
60	grumpy	grumpy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	59 means	xcomp
61	(	(	PUNCT	_	62 north	punct
62	north	north	ADV	_	64 Midlands	advmod
63	and	and	CCONJ	_	64 Midlands	cc
64	Midlands	midland	NOUN	Number=Plur	60 grumpy	appos
65	of	of	ADP	_	66 England	case
66	England	England	PROPN	Number=Sing	64 Midlands	nmod
67	)	)	PUNCT	_	64 Midlands	punct
68	.	.	PUNCT	_	47 means	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	use	present	people	ages and donkey's years			vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent age=Patient
2	mean	present			time		vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
3	is a	present		a cup		of tea	tree rules
4	mean	present	a cup			desperate property	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
5	mean	present	kip	sleep			vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sleep=Topic
6	mean	present	our kid	my brother or sister		Words dislocated	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brother=Topic
7	mean	present	mardy			grumpy property	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:108-how-long-since-counting-back.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 ×3, R6-punct-agree ×3, R7-rel-agree ×1, 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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