Lucky socks and Grandma's superstitions, sentence 22
Words people use: "aye" means yes (Scotland and the North), "didnae" means didn't and "no'" means not (Scotland), "pure" means really (Glasgow), "Ammamma" is grandma in Malayalam (Kerala, India), "Abuela" is grandma in Spanish, and "big brain moment" and "absolute weapon of a plan" are sarcastic ways to call an idea silly.
Who acts: people, aye, pure, Ammamma, big brain moment, idea · What happens: use, mean, be, call · To what, where: Words, Scotland, grandma, Malayalam, Spanish, sarcastic ways · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Lucky socks and Grandma's superstitions» 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, aye, pure, Ammamma), 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 | _ | 8 means | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 aye | punct |
| 6 | aye | aye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 means | nsubj |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 aye | punct |
| 8 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 use | parataxis |
| 9 | yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 8 means | discourse |
| 10 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 11 Scotland | punct |
| 11 | Scotland | Scotland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 use | parataxis |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 North | cc |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 North | det |
| 14 | North | North | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Scotland | conj |
| 15 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 11 Scotland | punct |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 means | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 didnae | punct |
| 18 | didnae | didnae | X | Foreign=Yes | 20 means | discourse |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 didnae | punct |
| 20 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 use | parataxis |
| 21 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 ' | aux |
| 22 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 26 ' | advmod |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 ' | cc |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 25 no | punct |
| 25 | no | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 26 ' | discourse |
| 26 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 20 means | punct |
| 27 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 28 means | punct |
| 28 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 use | parataxis |
| 29 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 31 Scotland | advmod |
| 30 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 31 Scotland | punct |
| 31 | Scotland | Scotland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 means | obj |
| 32 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 31 Scotland | punct |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 means | punct |
| 34 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 35 pure | punct |
| 35 | pure | pure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 means | nsubj |
| 36 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 35 pure | punct |
| 37 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 use | parataxis |
| 38 | really | really | ADV | _ | 37 means | advmod |
| 39 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 40 Glasgow | punct |
| 40 | Glasgow | Glasgow | PROPN | Number=Sing | 37 means | parataxis |
| 41 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 40 Glasgow | punct |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 Ammamma | punct |
| 43 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 44 Ammamma | punct |
| 44 | Ammamma | Ammamma | PROPN | Number=Sing | 47 grandma | nsubj |
| 45 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 44 Ammamma | punct |
| 46 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 47 grandma | cop |
| 47 | grandma | grandma | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 means | parataxis |
| 48 | in | in | ADP | _ | 49 Malayalam | case |
| 49 | Malayalam | Malayalam | PROPN | Number=Sing | 47 grandma | nmod |
| 50 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 51 Kerala | punct |
| 51 | Kerala | Kerala | PROPN | Number=Sing | 49 Malayalam | appos |
| 52 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 53 India | punct |
| 53 | India | India | PROPN | Number=Sing | 51 Kerala | appos |
| 54 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 51 Kerala | punct |
| 55 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 57 Abuela | punct |
| 56 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 57 Abuela | punct |
| 57 | Abuela | Abuela | PROPN | Number=Sing | 51 Kerala | appos |
| 58 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 57 Abuela | punct |
| 59 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 60 grandma | cop |
| 60 | grandma | grandma | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 means | parataxis |
| 61 | in | in | ADP | _ | 62 Spanish | case |
| 62 | Spanish | Spanish | PROPN | Number=Sing | 60 grandma | nmod |
| 63 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 80 ways | punct |
| 64 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 80 ways | cc |
| 65 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 68 moment | punct |
| 66 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 68 moment | amod |
| 67 | brain | brain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 68 moment | compound |
| 68 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 80 ways | nsubj |
| 69 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 68 moment | punct |
| 70 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 73 weapon | cc |
| 71 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 73 weapon | punct |
| 72 | absolute | absolute | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 73 weapon | amod |
| 73 | weapon | weapon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 68 moment | conj |
| 74 | of | of | ADP | _ | 76 plan | case |
| 75 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 76 plan | det |
| 76 | plan | plan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 73 weapon | nmod |
| 77 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 73 weapon | punct |
| 78 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 80 ways | cop |
| 79 | sarcastic | sarcastic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 80 ways | amod |
| 80 | ways | way | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 use | obl |
| 81 | to | to | PART | _ | 82 call | mark |
| 82 | call | call | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 80 ways | acl |
| 83 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 84 idea | det |
| 84 | idea | idea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 82 call | obj |
| 85 | silly | silly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 82 call | xcomp |
| 86 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 use | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | 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 | aye | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | mean | present | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | mean | present | Scotland | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent scotland=Topic | |||||
| 5 | mean | present | pure | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | is a | present | Ammamma | grandma | Malayalam | tree rules | |||
| 7 | is a | present | grandma | Spanish | tree rules | ||||
| 8 | is a | present | big brain moment and absolute weapon of a plan | sarcastic ways | tree rules | ||||
| 9 | call | to-infinitive | a idea | silly property | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «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.
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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): R6-punct-agree ×5. 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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