"It worked once": one example is not all, sentence 24

Words people use: "eejit" means idiot and "ya" means you (Ireland), "cos" means because, "mid" means ordinary or not very good (young slang), "fam" means mate, "bummer" means a disappointment (older US slang), "muppet" is a teasing word for a silly person (UK), and "hot whiskey" is a grown-up drink in Ireland.

Who acts: people, eejit, ya, cos, mid, young slang · What happens: use, mean, be, grow · To what, where: Words, idiot, you, ordinary, mate, disappointment · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «"It worked once": one example is not all» 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, eejit, ya, cos), 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	23 means	advcl
4	:	:	PUNCT	_	8 means	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 eejit	punct
6	eejit	eejit	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 means	nsubj
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 eejit	punct
8	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 use	parataxis
9	idiot	idiot	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 means	obj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 means	cc
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 ya	punct
12	ya	ya	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 means	nsubj
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 ya	punct
14	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 means	conj
15	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	14 means	obj
16	(	(	PUNCT	_	17 Ireland	punct
17	Ireland	Ireland	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 you	appos
18	)	)	PUNCT	_	17 Ireland	punct
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 means	punct
20	"	"	PUNCT	_	21 cos	punct
21	cos	cos	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 means	nsubj
22	"	"	PUNCT	_	21 cos	punct
23	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
24	because	because	SCONJ	_	23 means	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 because	punct
26	"	"	PUNCT	_	27 mid	punct
27	mid	mid	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 means	nsubj
28	"	"	PUNCT	_	27 mid	punct
29	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 means	parataxis
30	ordinary	ordinary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 means	obj
31	or	or	CCONJ	_	34 good	cc
32	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	34 good	advmod
33	very	very	ADV	_	34 good	advmod
34	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 ordinary	conj
35	(	(	PUNCT	_	37 slang	punct
36	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 slang	amod
37	slang	slang	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 means	nsubj
38	)	)	PUNCT	_	37 slang	punct
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 fam	punct
40	"	"	PUNCT	_	41 fam	punct
41	fam	fam	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 means	nsubj
42	"	"	PUNCT	_	41 fam	punct
43	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 means	ccomp
44	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 means	obj
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 means	punct
46	"	"	PUNCT	_	47 bummer	punct
47	bummer	bummer	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 means	nsubj
48	"	"	PUNCT	_	47 bummer	punct
49	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	43 means	parataxis
50	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	51 disappointment	det
51	disappointment	disappointment	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 means	obj
52	(	(	PUNCT	_	55 slang	punct
53	older	old	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	55 slang	amod
54	US	US	PROPN	Number=Sing	55 slang	compound
55	slang	slang	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 disappointment	appos
56	)	)	PUNCT	_	55 slang	punct
57	,	,	PUNCT	_	59 muppet	punct
58	"	"	PUNCT	_	59 muppet	punct
59	muppet	muppet	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 disappointment	appos
60	"	"	PUNCT	_	59 muppet	punct
61	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	64 word	cop
62	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	64 word	det
63	teasing	teasing	NOUN	Number=Sing	64 word	compound
64	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 means	ccomp
65	for	for	ADP	_	68 person	case
66	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	68 person	det
67	silly	silly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	68 person	amod
68	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	64 word	nmod
69	(	(	PUNCT	_	70 UK	punct
70	UK	UK	PROPN	Number=Sing	68 person	appos
71	)	)	PUNCT	_	70 UK	punct
72	,	,	PUNCT	_	83 drink	punct
73	and	and	CCONJ	_	83 drink	cc
74	"	"	PUNCT	_	76 whiskey	punct
75	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	76 whiskey	amod
76	whiskey	whiskey	NOUN	Number=Sing	83 drink	nsubj
77	"	"	PUNCT	_	76 whiskey	punct
78	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	83 drink	cop
79	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	83 drink	det
80	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	83 drink	amod
81	-	-	PUNCT	_	82 up	punct
82	up	up	NOUN	Number=Sing	83 drink	compound
83	drink	drink	NOUN	Number=Sing	64 word	conj
84	in	in	ADP	_	85 Ireland	case
85	Ireland	Ireland	PROPN	Number=Sing	83 drink	nmod
86	.	.	PUNCT	_	23 means	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed polarity=none

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	use	present	people	Words			vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Patient
2	mean	present	eejit	idiot			vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent idiot=Topic
3	mean	present	ya	you			vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Topic
4	mean	present	cos				tree rules
5	mean	present	mid	ordinary			vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ordinary=Topic
6	mean	present	young slang	mate			vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mate=Topic
7	mean	present	bummer	a disappointment			vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent disappointment=Topic
8	is a	present		a teasing word and a grown up drink		for a silly person	tree rules
9	grow	participle					vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
10	is a	present	hot whiskey	a grown up drink	Ireland		tree rules

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:164-it-worked-once-one-example-is-not-all.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 ×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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