"If... then..." and its traps, sentence 21
Words people use: "bruv" and "bro" (London, young people) mean mate; "mardy" (Midlands, North) means sulky; "wee" (Scotland) means small; "aye" (Scotland, North) means yes; "Roblox" is a computer game; "my bad" means "my mistake".
Who acts: people, mardy, wee, aye, Roblox, bad · What happens: use, mean, be, mistake · To what, where: Words, mate, computer game, mistake
This is a sentence of the lesson «"If... then..." and its traps» 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, mardy, wee, aye), 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 | 29 means | advcl |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 6 bruv | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 bruv | punct |
| 6 | bruv | bruv | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 use | obj |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 bruv | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 bro | cc |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 bro | punct |
| 10 | bro | bro | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 bruv | conj |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 bro | punct |
| 12 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 13 London | punct |
| 13 | London | London | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 bro | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 people | punct |
| 15 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 people | amod |
| 16 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 bro | conj |
| 17 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 16 people | punct |
| 18 | mean | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 means | parataxis |
| 19 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 mean | obj |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 mardy | punct |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 mardy | punct |
| 22 | mardy | Mardy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 means | nsubj |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 mardy | punct |
| 24 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 25 Midlands | punct |
| 25 | Midlands | midland | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 mardy | appos |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 use | punct |
| 27 | North | North | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 Midlands | flat |
| 28 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 27 North | punct |
| 29 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 30 | sulky | sulky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 means | xcomp |
| 31 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 33 wee | punct |
| 32 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 33 wee | punct |
| 33 | wee | wee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 means | nsubj |
| 34 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 33 wee | punct |
| 35 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 36 Scotland | punct |
| 36 | Scotland | Scotland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 wee | appos |
| 37 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 36 Scotland | punct |
| 38 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 means | parataxis |
| 39 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 means | xcomp |
| 40 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 42 aye | punct |
| 41 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 42 aye | punct |
| 42 | aye | aye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 49 means | nsubj |
| 43 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 42 aye | punct |
| 44 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 45 Scotland | punct |
| 45 | Scotland | Scotland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 42 aye | appos |
| 46 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 47 North | punct |
| 47 | North | North | PROPN | Number=Sing | 45 Scotland | nmod:unmarked |
| 48 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 45 Scotland | punct |
| 49 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 means | parataxis |
| 50 | yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 49 means | obj |
| 51 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 58 game | punct |
| 52 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 53 Roblox | punct |
| 53 | Roblox | Roblox | PROPN | Number=Sing | 58 game | nsubj |
| 54 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 53 Roblox | punct |
| 55 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 58 game | cop |
| 56 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 58 game | det |
| 57 | computer | computer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 58 game | compound |
| 58 | game | game | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 means | parataxis |
| 59 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 60 " | punct |
| 60 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 62 bad | punct |
| 61 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 62 bad | nmod:poss |
| 62 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 64 means | nsubj |
| 63 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 62 bad | punct |
| 64 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 means | parataxis |
| 65 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 67 mistake | punct |
| 66 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 67 mistake | nmod:poss |
| 67 | mistake | mistake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 64 means | obj |
| 68 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 67 mistake | punct |
| 69 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 29 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 | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | mean | present | mate | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mate=Topic | |||||
| 3 | mean | present | mardy | sulky property | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | mean | present | wee | small property | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | mean | present | aye | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent yes=Topic | |||||
| 6 | is a | present | Roblox | a computer game | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | mean | present | my bad | my mistake | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mistake=Topic | ||||
| 8 | mistake in a quote | my | nom mistake «act intransitive»: poss=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:184-if-then-and-its-traps.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): R6-punct-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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