--- title: "Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious", from the 1964 film Mary Poppin… — Building words: prefixes, suffixes and compounds · tree and pragmatics description: "Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious", from the 1964 film Mary Poppins, has 34 letters and means wonderful; it is a made-up word, and many of the longest dictionary words are technical ones. Who acts: Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious, blend, many. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious, blend, many), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:language:037-building-words-prefixes-suffixes-and-compounds.lesson:9 # text = "Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious", from the 1964 film Mary Poppins, has 34 letters and means wonderful; it is a made-up word, and many of the longest dictionary words are technical ones. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = language # lesson = 037-building-words-prefixes-suffixes-and-compounds.lesson # annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R2-punct-next ×1, R4-particle ×1 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 2 punct _ _ 2 Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ _ 3 " " PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ _ 4 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 5 from from ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 1964 1964 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 8 nummod _ _ 8 film film NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 9 Mary Mary PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 flat _ _ 10 Poppins Poppins PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 flat _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 12 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 13 34 34 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 14 nummod _ _ 14 letters letter NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 obj _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 16 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 conj _ _ 17 wonderful wonderful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 xcomp _ _ 18 ; ; PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 19 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 20 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 cop _ _ 21 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 22 made make VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 25 amod _ _ 23 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 24 punct _ _ 24 up up ADP RP _ 22 compound:prt _ Agree=R4-particle|Haiku=22:compound 25 word word NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 parataxis _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=25:punct 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 28 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 nsubj _ _ 29 of of ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 31 longest long ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 33 amod _ _ 32 dictionary dictionary NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 compound _ _ 33 words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 nmod _ _ 34 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 36 cop _ _ 35 technical technical ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 amod _ _ 36 ones one NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 conj _ _ 37 . . PUNCT . _ 12 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | present | Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious from the 1964 film | 34 letters | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent letter=Patient | | 2 | **mean** | present | Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious from the 1964 film *not said here* | | | | | wonderful *property* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **make up** | participle | | | | | | | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **is a** | present | blend | a made word and technical ones | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **is a** | present | many of the longest dictionary words | technical ones | | | | | 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](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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. 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