"Crime is up, I saw it on the news", sentence 18
Words people use: "telly" (UK) means TV; "bloke" (UK, Australia) means a man; "proper" (UK) means really; "back in my day" is how older people start talking about their childhood; "highkey" (US, young people) means very much, openly; "yinz" (Pittsburgh) means "you all"; "fr" means "for real".
Who acts: people, telly, bloke, US, yinz, fr · What happens: use, mean, be, start, talk, means · To what, where: Words, TV, man, you · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «"Crime is up, I saw it on the news"» 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, telly, bloke, US), 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 | 22 means | parataxis |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 6 telly | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 telly | punct |
| 6 | telly | telly | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 means | nsubj |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 telly | punct |
| 8 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 9 UK | punct |
| 9 | UK | UK | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 means | nsubj |
| 10 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 9 UK | punct |
| 11 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 use | parataxis |
| 12 | TV | TV | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 means | obj |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 bloke | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 bloke | punct |
| 15 | bloke | bloke | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 means | nsubj |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 bloke | punct |
| 17 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 18 UK | punct |
| 18 | UK | UK | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 bloke | appos |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 Australia | punct |
| 20 | Australia | Australia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 UK | conj |
| 21 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 18 UK | punct |
| 22 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 man | det |
| 24 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 means | obj |
| 25 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 27 proper | punct |
| 26 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 27 proper | punct |
| 27 | proper | proper | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 man | acl:relcl |
| 28 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 27 proper | punct |
| 29 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 30 UK | punct |
| 30 | UK | UK | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 man | appos |
| 31 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 30 UK | punct |
| 32 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 means | parataxis |
| 33 | really | really | ADV | _ | 32 means | advmod |
| 34 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 43 older | punct |
| 35 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 36 back | punct |
| 36 | back | back | ADV | _ | 39 day | advmod |
| 37 | in | in | ADP | _ | 39 day | case |
| 38 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 39 day | nmod:poss |
| 39 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 older | obl:unmarked |
| 40 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 39 day | punct |
| 41 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 43 older | cop |
| 42 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 43 older | advmod |
| 43 | older | old | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 22 means | parataxis |
| 44 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 45 start | nsubj |
| 45 | start | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 43 older | acl:relcl |
| 46 | talking | talk | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 45 start | xcomp |
| 47 | about | about | ADP | _ | 49 childhood | case |
| 48 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 49 childhood | nmod:poss |
| 49 | childhood | childhood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 talking | obl |
| 50 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 52 highkey | punct |
| 51 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 52 highkey | punct |
| 52 | highkey | highkey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 means | obj |
| 53 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 52 highkey | punct |
| 54 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 55 US | punct |
| 55 | US | US | PROPN | Number=Sing | 60 means | nsubj |
| 56 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 58 people | punct |
| 57 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 58 people | amod |
| 58 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 55 US | parataxis |
| 59 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 58 people | punct |
| 60 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 means | parataxis |
| 61 | very | very | ADV | _ | 62 much | advmod |
| 62 | much | much | ADV | _ | 60 means | advmod |
| 63 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 64 openly | punct |
| 64 | openly | openly | ADV | _ | 60 means | advmod |
| 65 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 67 yinz | punct |
| 66 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 67 yinz | punct |
| 67 | yinz | yinz | PROPN | _ | 72 means | nsubj |
| 68 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 67 yinz | punct |
| 69 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 70 Pittsburgh | punct |
| 70 | Pittsburgh | Pittsburgh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 72 means | nsubj |
| 71 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 70 Pittsburgh | punct |
| 72 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 60 means | parataxis |
| 73 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 74 you | punct |
| 74 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 72 means | obj |
| 75 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 81 means | det |
| 76 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 79 fr | punct |
| 77 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 79 fr | punct |
| 78 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 79 fr | punct |
| 79 | fr | fr | NOUN | Number=Sing | 81 means | nsubj |
| 80 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 79 fr | punct |
| 81 | means | means | NOUN | Number=Sing | 72 means | ccomp |
| 82 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 84 real | punct |
| 83 | for | for | ADP | _ | 84 real | case |
| 84 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 81 means | obl |
| 85 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 81 means | punct |
| 86 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 22 means | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- express
- 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 | mean | present | telly | TV | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tv=Topic | ||||
| 3 | mean | present | bloke | a man | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | mean | present | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | is | present | day | old property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | start | present | people | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 7 | talk | gerund | people not said here | about people's childhood | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about childhood=Topic | ||||
| 8 | mean | present | US | openly property | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 9 | mean | present | yinz | you | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Topic | ||||
| 10 | means | fr | for real | 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:177-crime-is-up-i-saw-it-on-the-news.lesson:18.
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 ×5, R6-punct-agree ×3, 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.
See the release 0.4.
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