The whole class punished, and "you didn't say no", sentence 25
Words people use: "bruv" means brother or mate (London), "no cap" means honestly, "this is giving group punishment" means this looks like group punishment (young slang), "man" at the end of a sentence is just for emphasis, and "Sir" and "Miss" are what pupils call teachers in Britain.
Who acts: people, bruv, cap, this, man, Sir · What happens: use, mean, give, look, be, call · To what, where: Words, brother, group punishment, teachers, Britain · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «The whole class punished, and "you didn't say no"» 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, bruv, cap, this), 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 | 20 means | advcl |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 8 means | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 bruv | punct |
| 6 | bruv | bruv | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 means | nsubj |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 bruv | punct |
| 8 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 use | parataxis |
| 9 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 means | obj |
| 10 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 11 mate | cc |
| 11 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 brother | conj |
| 12 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 13 London | punct |
| 13 | London | London | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 brother | appos |
| 14 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 13 London | punct |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 use | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 cap | punct |
| 17 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 18 cap | det |
| 18 | cap | cap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 means | nsubj |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 cap | punct |
| 20 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 21 | honestly | honestly | ADV | _ | 20 means | advmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 giving | punct |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 26 giving | punct |
| 24 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 26 giving | nsubj |
| 25 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 giving | aux |
| 26 | giving | give | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 30 means | ccomp |
| 27 | group | group | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 punishment | compound |
| 28 | punishment | punishment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 giving | obj |
| 29 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 26 giving | punct |
| 30 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 means | conj |
| 31 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 32 looks | nsubj |
| 32 | looks | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 means | ccomp |
| 33 | like | like | ADP | _ | 35 punishment | case |
| 34 | group | group | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 punishment | compound |
| 35 | punishment | punishment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 looks | obl |
| 36 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 38 slang | punct |
| 37 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 slang | amod |
| 38 | slang | slang | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 punishment | appos |
| 39 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 38 slang | punct |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 53 emphasis | punct |
| 41 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 42 man | punct |
| 42 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 53 emphasis | nsubj |
| 43 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 42 man | punct |
| 44 | at | at | ADP | _ | 46 end | case |
| 45 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 46 end | det |
| 46 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 man | nmod |
| 47 | of | of | ADP | _ | 49 sentence | case |
| 48 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 49 sentence | det |
| 49 | sentence | sentence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 end | nmod |
| 50 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 53 emphasis | cop |
| 51 | just | just | ADV | _ | 53 emphasis | advmod |
| 52 | for | for | ADP | _ | 53 emphasis | case |
| 53 | emphasis | emphasis | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 means | conj |
| 54 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 64 what | punct |
| 55 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 64 what | cc |
| 56 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 57 Sir | punct |
| 57 | Sir | Sir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 64 what | nsubj |
| 58 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 57 Sir | punct |
| 59 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 61 Miss | cc |
| 60 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 61 Miss | punct |
| 61 | Miss | Miss | PROPN | Number=Sing | 57 Sir | conj |
| 62 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 61 Miss | punct |
| 63 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 64 what | cop |
| 64 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 53 emphasis | conj |
| 65 | pupils | pupil | NOUN | Number=Plur | 66 call | nsubj |
| 66 | call | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 64 what | acl:relcl |
| 67 | teachers | teacher | NOUN | Number=Plur | 66 call | obj |
| 68 | in | in | ADP | _ | 69 Britain | case |
| 69 | Britain | Britain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 66 call | obl |
| 70 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 20 means | 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 | bruv | brother or mate | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brother=Topic | ||||
| 3 | mean | present | no cap | honestly property | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | give in a quote | present · progressive | this | group punishment | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent punishment=Theme | ||||
| 5 | mean | present | no cap not said here | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 6 | look | present | this | like group punishment | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 7 | is | present | man at the end of a sentence | for emphasis | tree rules | ||||
| 8 | is a | present | Sir and Miss | tree rules | |||||
| 9 | call | present | pupils | teachers | Britain | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent teacher=Recipient |
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:168-the-whole-class-punished-and-you-didnt-say-no.lesson:25.
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. 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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