--- title: People talk about it in their own way: in Britain "grafting" is work… — Concerts, orchestras and live gigs · tree and pragmatics description: People talk about it in their own way: in Britain "grafting" is working hard, a "tout" (a "scalper" in America) resells tickets for big money, and "taking the mick" means taking advantage; in the North East "pet" means dear; Gen Z "goated" means the greatest of all time and "bussin'" means really go --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/11-concerts-orchestras-and-live-gigs/4/) [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/) / [Arts](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/) / [Concerts, orchestras and live gigs](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/11-concerts-orchestras-and-live-gigs/) / 4 # Concerts, orchestras and live gigs, sentence 4 People talk about it in their own way: in Britain "grafting" is working hard, a "tout" (a "scalper" in America) resells tickets for big money, and "taking the mick" means taking advantage; in the North East "pet" means dear; Gen Z "goated" means the greatest of all time and "bussin'" means really good. **Who acts:** People, grafting, tout, taking, pet, Gen Z · **What happens:** talk, work, resell, take, mean, goat · **To what, where:** own way, Britain, tickets, mick, advantage, Gen Z · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «Concerts, orchestras and live gigs» 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, grafting, tout, taking), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:arts:011-concerts-orchestras-and-live-gigs.lesson:4 # text = People talk about it in their own way: in Britain "grafting" is working hard, a "tout" (a "scalper" in America) resells tickets for big money, and "taking the mick" means taking advantage; in the North East "pet" means dear; Gen Z "goated" means the greatest of all time and "bussin'" means really good. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = arts # lesson = 011-concerts-orchestras-and-live-gigs.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 ×6, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-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 31 parataxis _ _ 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 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 9 : : PUNCT : _ 11 punct _ _ 10 in in ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 Britain Britain PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 obl _ _ 12 " " PUNCT `` _ 13 punct _ _ 13 grafting graft NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=16:nsubj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBG:Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 14 " " PUNCT '' _ 13 punct _ _ 15 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 aux _ _ 16 working work VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 8 acl:relcl _ _ 17 hard hard ADV RB Degree=Pos 16 advmod _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=8:punct 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 20 " " PUNCT `` _ 21 punct _ _ 21 tout tout NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nsubj _ _ 22 " " PUNCT '' _ 21 punct _ _ 23 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 26 punct _ _ 24 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 25 " " PUNCT `` _ 26 punct _ _ 26 scalper scalper NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 appos _ _ 27 " " PUNCT '' _ 26 punct _ _ 28 in in ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 29 America America PROPN NNP Number=Sing 26 nmod _ _ 30 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 26 punct _ _ 31 resells resell VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 32 tickets ticket NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 obj _ _ 33 for for ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 34 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 amod _ _ 35 money money NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obl _ _ 36 , , PUNCT , _ 43 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=39:punct 37 and and CCONJ CC _ 43 cc _ _ 38 " " PUNCT `` _ 39 punct _ _ 39 taking take VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 43 csubj _ _ 40 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 41 mick mick NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 obj _ _ 42 " " PUNCT '' _ 39 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=41:punct 43 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 conj _ _ 44 taking take VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 43 ccomp _ _ 45 advantage advantage NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 obj _ _ 46 ; ; PUNCT : _ 54 punct _ _ 47 in in ADP IN _ 50 case _ _ 48 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 50 det _ _ 49 North North PROPN NNP Number=Sing 50 compound _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=50:amod 50 East East PROPN NNP Number=Sing 54 obl _ _ 51 " " PUNCT `` _ 52 punct _ _ 52 pet pet NOUN NN Number=Sing 54 nsubj _ _ 53 " " PUNCT '' _ 52 punct _ _ 54 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 parataxis _ _ 55 dear dear ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 54 xcomp _ _ 56 ; ; PUNCT : _ 62 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=58:punct 57 Gen gen NOUN NN Number=Sing 58 compound _ _ 58 Z z NOUN NN Number=Sing 62 nsubj _ _ 59 " " PUNCT `` _ 60 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=58:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 60 goated goat VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 58 acl _ _ 61 " " PUNCT '' _ 60 punct _ _ 62 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 54 parataxis _ _ 63 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 64 det _ _ 64 greatest great ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 62 obj _ _ 65 of of ADP IN _ 67 case _ _ 66 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 67 det _ _ 67 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 64 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=64:nmod 68 and and CCONJ CC _ 73 cc _ _ 69 " " PUNCT `` _ 70 punct _ _ 70 bussin bussin NOUN NN Number=Sing 73 nsubj _ _ 71 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 70 punct _ _ 72 " " PUNCT '' _ 70 punct _ _ 73 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 62 conj _ _ 74 really really ADV RB _ 75 advmod _ _ 75 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 73 xcomp _ _ 76 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=31:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **talk** | present | People | | | people's own way | | about music | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about it=Topic | | 2 | **work** | present · progressive | grafting | people's own way *not said here* | | Britain | | hard *property* | vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent way=Material | | 3 | **resell** | present | a tout | tickets | | | | for big money | tree rules | | 4 | **take** *in a quote* | gerund | | the mick | | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mick=Theme | | 5 | **mean** | present | taking | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 6 | **take** | gerund | | advantage | | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent advantage=Theme | | 7 | **mean** | present | pet | | | | | in the North East; dear *property* | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot in east=Attribute | | 8 | **goat** *in a quote* | participle | | Gen Z *not said here* | | | | | tree rules | | 9 | **mean** | present | Gen Z | the greatest | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent great=Topic | | 10 | **mean** | present | bussin | | | | | good *property* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=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](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:arts:011-concerts-orchestras-and-live-gigs.lesson:4`. **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 ×6, R7-rel-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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Concerts, orchestras and live gigs, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/11-concerts-orchestras-and-live-gigs/3/) - next →: [Concerts, orchestras and live gigs, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/11-concerts-orchestras-and-live-gigs/5/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/11-concerts-orchestras-and-live-gigs/)