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title: People say it their own way: "class" or "proper class" means brillia… — Animation: flipbooks, stop-motion, computer cart… · tree and pragmatics
description: People say it their own way: "class" or "proper class" means brilliant in Ireland and Britain, "ya muppet" is a cheeky "you silly", and "jittery" means shaky and jumpy. Who acts: People, class, ya muppet, jittery. A sentence of the lesson «Animation: flipbooks, stop-motion, computer cartoons» of the
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# Animation: flipbooks, stop-motion, computer cartoons, sentence 4

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People say it their own way: "class" or "proper class" means brilliant in Ireland and Britain, "ya muppet" is a cheeky "you silly", and "jittery" means shaky and jumpy.

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**Who acts:** People, class, ya muppet, jittery · **What happens:** say, mean, be · **To what, where:** animator · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Animation: flipbooks, stop-motion, computer cartoons» 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, class, ya muppet, jittery), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:arts:023-animation-flipbooks-stop-motion-computer-cartoons.lesson:4
# text = People say it their own way: "class" or "proper class" means brilliant in Ireland and Britain, "ya muppet" is a cheeky "you silly", and "jittery" means shaky and jumpy.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = arts
# lesson = 023-animation-flipbooks-stop-motion-computer-cartoons.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, R8-pos-agree ×2
1	People	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	advcl	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
5	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl:unmarked	_	_
7	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	_
8	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	_
9	class	class	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
10	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
11	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
12	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	_
13	proper	proper	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	class	class	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
15	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	14	punct	_	_
16	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
17	brilliant	brilliant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	xcomp	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	Ireland	Ireland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	Britain	Britain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
23	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	19	punct	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=19:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_
24	ya	ya	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	muppet	muppet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nsubj	_	_
26	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	25	punct	_	_
27	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	32	cop	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
29	cheeky	cheeky	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
30	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	32	punct	_	_
31	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
32	silly	silly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	parataxis	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=16:parataxis|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
33	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	32	punct	_	_
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
36	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	37	punct	_	_
37	jittery	jittery	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	nsubj	_	_
38	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	37	punct	_	_
39	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	_
40	shaky	shaky	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	xcomp	_	_
41	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc	_	_
42	jumpy	jumpy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	conj	_	_
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=16:punct
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed polarity=none, voice=narrator

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | People | animator |  |  |  | People's own way *obl:unmarked* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent it=Topic |
| 2 | **mean** | present | class or proper class |  |  |  |  | brilliant *property* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **is** *in a quote* | present | ya muppet |  |  |  |  | silly *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **mean** | present | jittery |  |  |  |  | shaky *property* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=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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**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:023-animation-flipbooks-stop-motion-computer-cartoons.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 ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2. **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/).

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