--- title: In Britain and Ireland "let's put the kettle on" means "let's stop,… — Coffee, tea, wine and the pub · tree and pragmatics description: In Britain and Ireland "let's put the kettle on" means "let's stop, sit down and deal with this together"; the pause matters more than the tea. Who acts: 's, pause. A sentence of the lesson «Coffee, tea, wine and the pub» of the adult life course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/27-coffee-tea-wine-and-the-pub/7/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Adult life](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/) / [Coffee, tea, wine and the pub](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/27-coffee-tea-wine-and-the-pub/) / 7 # Coffee, tea, wine and the pub, sentence 7 In Britain and Ireland "let's put the kettle on" means "let's stop, sit down and deal with this together"; the pause matters more than the tea. **Who acts:** 's, pause · **What happens:** let, put on, mean, stop, sit down, deal · **To what, where:** 's, kettle, Britain · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «Coffee, tea, wine and the pub» of the adult life 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 ('s, pause), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:adult-life:027-coffee-tea-wine-and-the-pub.lesson:7 # text = In Britain and Ireland "let's put the kettle on" means "let's stop, sit down and deal with this together"; the pause matters more than the tea. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = adult-life # lesson = 027-coffee-tea-wine-and-the-pub.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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 In in ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 Britain Britain PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 3 and and CCONJ CC _ 4 cc _ _ 4 Ireland Ireland PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 conj _ _ 5 " " PUNCT `` _ 6 punct _ _ 6 let let VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 13 ccomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=13:csubj 7 's we PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 6 obj _ _ 8 put put VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 xcomp _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 kettle kettle NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ _ 11 on on ADP RP _ 8 compound:prt _ _ 12 " " PUNCT '' _ 6 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=13:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:``:_ 13 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 14 " " PUNCT `` _ 15 punct _ _ 15 let let VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 13 ccomp _ _ 16 's we PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 15 obj _ _ 17 stop stop VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 15 xcomp _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 19 sit sit VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 17 conj _ _ 20 down down ADP RP _ 19 compound:prt _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 22 deal deal VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 19 conj _ _ 23 with with ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 this this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 22 obl _ _ 25 together together ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 26 " " PUNCT '' _ 15 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=25:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:``:_ 27 ; ; PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 pause pause NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nsubj _ _ 30 matters matter VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 parataxis _ _ 31 more more ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 30 advmod _ _ 32 than than ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 tea tea NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=30:obl 35 . . PUNCT . _ 13 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **let** *in a quote* | infinitive | | 's | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **put on** *in a quote* | infinitive | 's *not said here* | the kettle | | | | | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent kettle=Goal | | 3 | **mean** | present | | | | Britain and Ireland | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **let** *in a quote* | infinitive | | 's | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **stop** *in a quote* | infinitive | 's *not said here* | | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | | 6 | **sit down** *in a quote* | infinitive | 's *not said here* | | | | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **deal** *in a quote* | infinitive | 's *not said here* | | | | | with this; together *property* | vn cope-83 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent with this=Theme | | 8 | **matter** | present | the pause | | | | | | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus | 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. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:adult-life:027-coffee-tea-wine-and-the-pub.lesson:7`. **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 ×2, R7-rel-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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Coffee, tea, wine and the pub, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/27-coffee-tea-wine-and-the-pub/6/) - next →: [Coffee, tea, wine and the pub, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/27-coffee-tea-wine-and-the-pub/8/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/27-coffee-tea-wine-and-the-pub/)