Bets, dares and silly reasons, sentence 19
Words people use: "nah, I'm good" means no thanks, "bro" and "mate" mean friend, "mid" means not very good (young slang), "a fiver" is a five-pound note, "galaxy brain" is sarcastic for a silly idea, and "your face will fold in half" is a joke about the sour face lemons give you.
Who acts: people, mid, fiver, galaxy brain, face, sour face lemons · What happens: use, be, mean, fold, give · To what, where: Words, thanks, friend, pound note, half, joke · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Bets, dares and silly reasons» 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, mid, fiver, galaxy brain), 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 | 54 sarcastic | parataxis |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 3 use | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 good | punct |
| 6 | nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 10 good | discourse |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 nah | punct |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 good | nsubj |
| 9 | 'm | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 good | cop |
| 10 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 means | ccomp |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 good | punct |
| 12 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 use | parataxis |
| 13 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 14 thanks | det |
| 14 | thanks | thanks | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 means | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 bro | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 bro | punct |
| 17 | bro | bro | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 thanks | parataxis |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 bro | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 means | cc |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 mate | punct |
| 21 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 mean | compound |
| 22 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 mate | punct |
| 23 | mean | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 use | parataxis |
| 24 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 mean | obj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 mean | punct |
| 26 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 27 mid | punct |
| 27 | mid | mid | X | _ | 29 means | nsubj |
| 28 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 27 mid | punct |
| 29 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 use | parataxis |
| 30 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 32 good | advmod |
| 31 | very | very | ADV | _ | 32 good | advmod |
| 32 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 means | xcomp |
| 33 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 35 slang | punct |
| 34 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 slang | amod |
| 35 | slang | slang | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 good | parataxis |
| 36 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 35 slang | punct |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 use | punct |
| 38 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 use | punct |
| 39 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 40 fiver | det |
| 40 | fiver | fiver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 note | nsubj |
| 41 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 40 fiver | punct |
| 42 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 47 note | cop |
| 43 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 47 note | det |
| 44 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 46 pound | nummod |
| 45 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 44 five | punct |
| 46 | pound | pound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 note | compound |
| 47 | note | note | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 use | parataxis |
| 48 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 use | punct |
| 49 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 51 brain | punct |
| 50 | galaxy | galaxy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 51 brain | compound |
| 51 | brain | brain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 54 sarcastic | nsubj |
| 52 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 51 brain | punct |
| 53 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 54 sarcastic | cop |
| 54 | sarcastic | sarcastic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 55 | for | for | ADP | _ | 58 idea | case |
| 56 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 58 idea | det |
| 57 | silly | silly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 58 idea | amod |
| 58 | idea | idea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 54 sarcastic | obl |
| 59 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 71 joke | punct |
| 60 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 71 joke | cc |
| 61 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 65 fold | punct |
| 62 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 63 face | nmod:poss |
| 63 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 65 fold | nsubj |
| 64 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 65 fold | aux |
| 65 | fold | fold | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 71 joke | csubj |
| 66 | in | in | ADP | _ | 67 half | case |
| 67 | half | half | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 65 fold | obl |
| 68 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 65 fold | punct |
| 69 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 71 joke | cop |
| 70 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 71 joke | det |
| 71 | joke | joke | NOUN | Number=Sing | 54 sarcastic | conj |
| 72 | about | about | SCONJ | _ | 77 give | mark |
| 73 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 76 lemons | det |
| 74 | sour | sour | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 76 lemons | amod |
| 75 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 76 lemons | compound |
| 76 | lemons | lemon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 77 give | nsubj |
| 77 | give | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 71 joke | acl:relcl |
| 78 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 77 give | iobj |
| 79 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 54 sarcastic | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- character
- 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 | is in a quote | present | both people = people | good property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | mean | present | no thanks | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thanks=Topic | |||||
| 4 | mean | present | friend | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent friend=Topic | |||||
| 5 | mean | present | mid | good property | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 6 | is a | present | a fiver | a pound note | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | is | present | galaxy brain | for a silly idea; sarcastic property | tree rules | ||||
| 8 | fold in a quote | future | your face | half | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 9 | be speech: other | present | galaxy brain not said here | a joke | tree rules | ||||
| 10 | give | present | the sour face lemons | a joke not said here | you | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme |
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:169-bets-dares-and-silly-reasons.lesson:19.
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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×4, 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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