Sounds right, but is wrong, sentence 21
Words people use: "fam" (London, young people) means mates; "can or not?" (Singapore) means "is it possible?"; "lah" (Singapore) is added to make a sentence sound friendly; "mate" means friend.
Who acts: people, fam, Singapore, year old, mate · What happens: use, mean, be, add, make, sound · To what, where: Words, mates, lah, friend · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Sounds right, but is wrong» 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, fam, Singapore, year old), 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 | 26 means | parataxis |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 6 fam | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 fam | punct |
| 6 | fam | fam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 means | nsubj |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 fam | punct |
| 8 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 9 London | punct |
| 9 | London | London | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 fam | appos |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 people | punct |
| 11 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 people | amod |
| 12 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 fam | conj |
| 13 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 12 people | punct |
| 14 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 means | parataxis |
| 15 | mates | mate | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 means | obj |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 26 means | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 can | punct |
| 18 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 means | advcl |
| 19 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 20 not | cc |
| 20 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 18 can | conj |
| 21 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 18 can | punct |
| 22 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 can | punct |
| 23 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 24 Singapore | punct |
| 24 | Singapore | Singapore | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 means | nsubj |
| 25 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 24 Singapore | punct |
| 26 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 27 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 30 possible | punct |
| 28 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 possible | cop |
| 29 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 possible | nsubj |
| 30 | possible | possible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 means | ccomp |
| 31 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 26 means | punct |
| 32 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 41 added | punct |
| 33 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 41 added | punct |
| 34 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 35 lah | punct |
| 35 | lah | lah | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 added | nsubj:pass |
| 36 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 35 lah | punct |
| 37 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 38 Singapore | punct |
| 38 | Singapore | Singapore | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 lah | appos |
| 39 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 38 Singapore | punct |
| 40 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 41 added | aux:pass |
| 41 | added | add | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 26 means | conj |
| 42 | to | to | PART | _ | 43 make | mark |
| 43 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 41 added | advcl |
| 44 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 45 sentence | det |
| 45 | sentence | sentence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 sound | compound |
| 46 | sound | sound | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 43 make | xcomp |
| 47 | friendly | friendly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 43 make | xcomp |
| 48 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 52 means | punct |
| 49 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 50 mate | punct |
| 50 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 52 means | nsubj |
| 51 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 50 mate | punct |
| 52 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 means | parataxis |
| 53 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 52 means | obj |
| 54 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 26 means | 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 eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Patient | ||||
| 2 | mean | present | fam and young people | mates | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mate=Topic | ||||
| 3 | mean | present | Singapore | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is in a quote | present | year old = old | possible property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | add speech: assert | present · passive | lah | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 6 | make | to-infinitive | friendly property | tree rules | |||||
| 7 | sound | infinitive | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||||
| 8 | mean | present | mate | friend | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent friend=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:183-sounds-right-but-is-wrong.lesson:21.
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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×4, R7-rel-agree ×4. 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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