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title: People talk about it in their own words: in Ireland a "yoke" is just… — Music lessons and the recorder · tree and pragmatics
description: People talk about it in their own words: in Ireland a "yoke" is just a thing and an "eejit" a fool, in Scotland "greetin'" is crying, in Wales "tamping" is furious, and in Britain "minging" means disgusting. Who acts: People, yoke, greetin, tamping. A sentence of the lesson «Music lessons and the re
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# Music lessons and the recorder, sentence 4

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People talk about it in their own words: in Ireland a "yoke" is just a thing and an "eejit" a fool, in Scotland "greetin'" is crying, in Wales "tamping" is furious, and in Britain "minging" means disgusting.

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**Who acts:** People, yoke, greetin, tamping · **What happens:** talk, be, cry, ming, mean, word · **To what, where:** own words, thing, Ireland, Scotland · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Music lessons and the recorder» of the arts 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, yoke, greetin, tamping), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:arts:001-music-lessons-and-the-recorder.lesson:4
# text = People talk about it in their own words: in Ireland a "yoke" is just a thing and an "eejit" a fool, in Scotland "greetin'" is crying, in Wales "tamping" is furious, and in Britain "minging" means disgusting.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = arts
# lesson = 001-music-lessons-and-the-recorder.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): R6-punct-agree ×1
1	People	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	talk	talk	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	about	about	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obl	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
7	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
9	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	Ireland	Ireland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	_
14	yoke	yoke	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
15	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	14	punct	_	_
16	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
17	just	just	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	parataxis	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
21	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	23	punct	_	_
23	eejit	eejit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	_
24	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	23	punct	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	fool	fool	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	appos	_	_
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
28	in	in	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	Scotland	Scotland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	_
30	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	31	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=29:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_
31	greetin	greetin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nsubj	_	_
32	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	31	punct	_	_
33	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	31	punct	_	_
34	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	35	aux	_	_
35	crying	cry	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	19	acl:relcl	_	_
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
37	in	in	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	Wales	Wales	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	_
39	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	40	punct	_	_
40	tamping	tamping	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	nsubj	_	_
41	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	40	punct	_	_
42	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	43	cop	_	_
43	furious	furious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	parataxis	_	_
44	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	51	punct	_	_
45	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	51	cc	_	_
46	in	in	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
47	Britain	Britain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	51	obl	_	_
48	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	49	punct	_	_
49	minging	ming	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	51	nsubj	_	_
50	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	49	punct	_	_
51	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
52	disgusting	disgusting	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	51	xcomp	_	_
53	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **talk** | present | People |  |  | People's own words |  | about finger | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about it=Topic |
| 2 | **is a** | present | a yoke | a thing and a eejit |  | Ireland |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **cry** *speech: express* | present · progressive | greetin | a thing and a eejit *not said here* |  | Scotland |  | in Wales | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Topic |
| 4 | **is** | present | tamping |  |  |  |  | furious *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **ming** *in a quote* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **mean** | present |  |  |  |  |  | in Britain; disgusting *property* | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot in britain=Attribute |
| 7 | **word** |  | People |  |  |  |  |  | nom word «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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.

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**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 ×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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