Sounds wrong, but is right, sentence 19
Words people use: "no way" means "I don't believe it"; "chilling" means relaxing; "my lover" (West Country) is a friendly "dear"; "proper job" (West Country) means well done; "bostin'" (Black Country) means brilliant; "deffo" (UK) means definitely.
Who acts: people, way, grown ups, chilling, friendly proper job, bostin · What happens: use, mean, not believe, relax, be, do · To what, where: Words, way, friendly proper job · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Sounds wrong, but is right» 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, way, grown ups, chilling), 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 | _ | 9 means | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 way | punct |
| 6 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 7 way | det |
| 7 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 means | nsubj |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 way | punct |
| 9 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 use | parataxis |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 believe | punct |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 believe | nsubj |
| 12 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 believe | aux |
| 13 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 believe | advmod |
| 14 | believe | believe | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 means | ccomp |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 believe | obj |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 believe | punct |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 means | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 chilling | punct |
| 19 | chilling | chilling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 means | nsubj |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 chilling | punct |
| 21 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 use | parataxis |
| 22 | relaxing | relax | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 21 means | xcomp |
| 23 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 26 lover | punct |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 26 lover | punct |
| 25 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 lover | nmod:poss |
| 26 | lover | lover | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 use | parataxis |
| 27 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 26 lover | punct |
| 28 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 30 Country | punct |
| 29 | West | West | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 Country | compound |
| 30 | Country | Country | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 lover | appos |
| 31 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 30 Country | punct |
| 32 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 41 job | cop |
| 33 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 41 job | det |
| 34 | friendly | friendly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 job | amod |
| 35 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 36 dear | punct |
| 36 | dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 friendly | conj |
| 37 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 36 dear | punct |
| 38 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 34 friendly | punct |
| 39 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 41 job | punct |
| 40 | proper | proper | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 job | amod |
| 41 | job | job | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 means | nsubj |
| 42 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 41 job | punct |
| 43 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 45 Country | punct |
| 44 | West | West | PROPN | Number=Sing | 45 Country | compound |
| 45 | Country | Country | PROPN | Number=Sing | 41 job | appos |
| 46 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 45 Country | punct |
| 47 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 use | parataxis |
| 48 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 49 done | advmod |
| 49 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 47 means | xcomp |
| 50 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 52 bostin | punct |
| 51 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 52 bostin | punct |
| 52 | bostin | bostin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 59 means | nsubj |
| 53 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 52 bostin | punct |
| 54 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 52 bostin | punct |
| 55 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 57 Country | punct |
| 56 | Black | Black | PROPN | Number=Sing | 57 Country | compound |
| 57 | Country | Country | PROPN | Number=Sing | 52 bostin | appos |
| 58 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 57 Country | punct |
| 59 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 use | parataxis |
| 60 | brilliant | brilliant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 59 means | xcomp |
| 61 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 68 means | punct |
| 62 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 63 deffo | punct |
| 63 | deffo | deffo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 68 means | nsubj |
| 64 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 63 deffo | punct |
| 65 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 66 UK | punct |
| 66 | UK | UK | PROPN | Number=Sing | 63 deffo | appos |
| 67 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 66 UK | punct |
| 68 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 use | parataxis |
| 69 | definitely | definitely | ADV | _ | 68 means | advmod |
| 70 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 use | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | use | present | people | Words | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent word=Theme clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | mean | present | no way | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | not believe in a quote | present · do-support | grown ups = up | way | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | mean | present | chilling | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | relax not said to happen | gerund | chilling not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 6 | is a in a quote | present | a friendly proper job | tree rules | |||||
| 7 | mean | present | a friendly proper job | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 8 | do not said to happen | participle | a friendly proper job not said here | well property | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 9 | mean | present | bostin | brilliant property | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 10 | mean | present | deffo | definitely property | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |
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:182-sounds-wrong-but-is-right.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): R5-strong ×3, R6-punct-agree ×2, 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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