Days, weeks and months, sentence 23
Words people use: "close but no cigar" means nearly right but wrong, "bins" means rubbish collection (UK), "bairn" means child, "aye" means yes, "ken" means know and "dinnae" means don't (Scotland).
Who acts: people, close, bins, bairn, aye, ken · What happens: use, mean, know, not do · To what, where: Words, right, rubbish collection, child
This is a sentence of the lesson «Days, weeks and months» 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, close, bins, bairn), 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 | 30 means | advcl |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 6 close | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 close | punct |
| 6 | close | close | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 means | nsubj |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 cigar | cc |
| 8 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 9 cigar | det |
| 9 | cigar | cigar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 close | conj |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 close | punct |
| 11 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 use | parataxis |
| 12 | nearly | nearly | ADV | _ | 13 right | advmod |
| 13 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 means | obj |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 wrong | cc |
| 15 | wrong | wrong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 right | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 means | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 bins | punct |
| 18 | bins | bin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 means | nsubj |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 bins | punct |
| 20 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 use | parataxis |
| 21 | rubbish | rubbish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 collection | compound |
| 22 | collection | collection | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 means | obj |
| 23 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 24 UK | punct |
| 24 | UK | UK | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 collection | appos |
| 25 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 24 UK | punct |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 means | punct |
| 27 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 28 bairn | punct |
| 28 | bairn | bairn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 means | nsubj |
| 29 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 28 bairn | punct |
| 30 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 31 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 means | obj |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 means | punct |
| 33 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 34 aye | punct |
| 34 | aye | aye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 means | nsubj |
| 35 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 34 aye | punct |
| 36 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 means | parataxis |
| 37 | yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 36 means | obj |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 yes | punct |
| 39 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 40 ken | punct |
| 40 | ken | ken | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 means | nsubj |
| 41 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 40 ken | punct |
| 42 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 means | parataxis |
| 43 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 42 means | obj |
| 44 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 48 means | cc |
| 45 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 46 dinnae | punct |
| 46 | dinnae | dinnae | X | Foreign=Yes | 48 means | nsubj |
| 47 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 46 dinnae | punct |
| 48 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 42 means | conj |
| 49 | do | do | VERB | _ | 48 means | obj |
| 50 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 49 do | advmod |
| 51 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 52 Scotland | punct |
| 52 | Scotland | Scotland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 48 means | dep |
| 53 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 52 Scotland | punct |
| 54 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 30 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 | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Patient | ||||
| 2 | mean | present | close but no cigar | right | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent right=Topic | ||||
| 3 | mean | present | bins | rubbish collection | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent collection=Topic | ||||
| 4 | mean | present | bairn | child | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Topic | ||||
| 5 | mean | present | aye | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent yes=Topic | |||||
| 6 | mean | present | ken | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 7 | know | present | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 8 | mean | present | dinnae | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 9 | not do | present | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: 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:111-days-weeks-and-months.lesson:23.
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 ×4, R7-rel-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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