Adverts and "8 out of 10 cats", sentence 17
Words people use: "bussin'" (US kids) means really good, especially food; "mid" means just average; "fr" means "for real"; "tbh" means "to be honest"; "quid" (UK) means pounds; "lekker" (South Africa) means great or tasty; "y'all" (US South) means "you all".
Who acts: people, bussin, mid, fr, tbh, quid · What happens: use, mean, be · To what, where: Words, average, pounds, you · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Adverts and "8 out of 10 cats"» 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, bussin, mid, fr), 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 | _ | 6 bussin | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 bussin | punct |
| 6 | bussin | bussin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 means | nsubj |
| 7 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 bussin | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 bussin | punct |
| 9 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 11 kids | punct |
| 10 | US | US | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 kids | compound |
| 11 | kids | kid | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 bussin | appos |
| 12 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 11 kids | punct |
| 13 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 use | parataxis |
| 14 | really | really | ADV | _ | 15 good | advmod |
| 15 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 means | xcomp |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 food | punct |
| 17 | especially | especially | ADV | _ | 18 food | advmod |
| 18 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 good | conj |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 means | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 mid | punct |
| 21 | mid | mid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 means | nsubj |
| 22 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 mid | punct |
| 23 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 use | parataxis |
| 24 | just | just | ADV | _ | 25 average | advmod |
| 25 | average | average | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 means | obj |
| 26 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 30 means | punct |
| 27 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 28 fr | punct |
| 28 | fr | fr | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 means | nsubj |
| 29 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 28 fr | punct |
| 30 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 means | parataxis |
| 31 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 33 real | punct |
| 32 | for | for | ADP | _ | 33 real | case |
| 33 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 means | obl |
| 34 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 33 real | punct |
| 35 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 39 means | punct |
| 36 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 37 tbh | punct |
| 37 | tbh | tbh | NOUN | _ | 39 means | nsubj |
| 38 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 37 tbh | punct |
| 39 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 use | parataxis |
| 40 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 43 honest | punct |
| 41 | to | to | PART | _ | 43 honest | mark |
| 42 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 43 honest | cop |
| 43 | honest | honest | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 means | xcomp |
| 44 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 43 honest | punct |
| 45 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 52 means | punct |
| 46 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 47 quid | punct |
| 47 | quid | quid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 52 means | nsubj |
| 48 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 47 quid | punct |
| 49 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 50 UK | punct |
| 50 | UK | UK | PROPN | Number=Sing | 47 quid | appos |
| 51 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 50 UK | punct |
| 52 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 43 honest | parataxis |
| 53 | pounds | pound | NOUN | Number=Plur | 52 means | obj |
| 54 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 56 lekker | punct |
| 55 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 56 lekker | punct |
| 56 | lekker | lekker | NOUN | Number=Sing | 62 means | nsubj |
| 57 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 56 lekker | punct |
| 58 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 60 Africa | punct |
| 59 | South | South | PROPN | Number=Sing | 60 Africa | compound |
| 60 | Africa | Africa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 56 lekker | appos |
| 61 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 60 Africa | punct |
| 62 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 52 means | conj |
| 63 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 62 means | xcomp |
| 64 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 65 tasty | cc |
| 65 | tasty | tasty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 63 great | conj |
| 66 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 74 means | punct |
| 67 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 68 y'all | punct |
| 68 | y'all | y'all | NOUN | Number=Sing | 74 means | nsubj |
| 69 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 68 y'all | punct |
| 70 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 71 US | punct |
| 71 | US | US | PROPN | Number=Sing | 68 y'all | appos |
| 72 | South | South | PROPN | Number=Sing | 71 US | flat |
| 73 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 72 South | punct |
| 74 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 use | parataxis |
| 75 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 76 you | punct |
| 76 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 74 means | obj |
| 77 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 76 you | flat |
| 78 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 76 you | punct |
| 79 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 use | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- pos
- teacher
- changed act=assert
| # | 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 | bussin | good property | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | mean | present | mid | average | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent average=Topic | ||||
| 4 | mean | present | fr | for real | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot for real=Attribute | ||||
| 5 | mean | present | tbh | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | is not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | tbh not said here | honest property | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | mean | present | quid | pounds | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pound=Topic | ||||
| 8 | mean | present | lekker | great property | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 9 | mean | present | y'all | you | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Topic |
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:176-adverts-and-8-out-of-10-cats.lesson:17.
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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×7, R7-rel-agree ×2, 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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