--- title: Different places say it their own way: Gen Z "it's giving prison" me… — Practising when you would rather not · tree and pragmatics description: Different places say it their own way: Gen Z "it's giving prison" means it feels like prison, Singaporeans say "lah" for emphasis and "can or not" for "is it possible", Australians say "arvo" for afternoon, and in Ireland "wojus" means terrible. Who acts: Different places, Z, Gen Z, Singaporeans. 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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 (Different places, Z, Gen Z, Singaporeans), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:arts:003-practising-when-you-would-rather-not.lesson:5 # text = Different places say it their own way: Gen Z "it's giving prison" means it feels like prison, Singaporeans say "lah" for emphasis and "can or not" for "is it possible", Australians say "arvo" for afternoon, and in Ireland "wojus" means terrible. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = arts # lesson = 003-practising-when-you-would-rather-not.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 ×4, R6-punct-agree ×8, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Different different ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 places place NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 say say VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=17:advcl 4 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 obj _ _ 5 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 7 nmod:poss _ _ 6 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 8 : : PUNCT : _ 10 punct _ _ 9 Gen gen NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 compound _ _ 10 Z z NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:appos 11 " " PUNCT `` _ 14 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=10:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 12 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 13 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 aux _ _ 14 giving give VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 7 acl:relcl _ _ 15 prison prison NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ _ 16 " " PUNCT '' _ 14 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=15:punct 17 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=0:root 18 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 19 feels feel VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 ccomp _ _ 20 like like ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 prison prison NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 23 Singaporeans singaporean PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 24 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=24:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur 24 say say VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 57 advcl _ _ 25 " " PUNCT `` _ 26 punct _ _ 26 lah lah NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obj _ _ 27 " " PUNCT '' _ 26 punct _ _ 28 for for ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 29 emphasis emphasis NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 40 cc _ _ 31 " " PUNCT `` _ 32 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=40:punct 32 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 40 aux _ _ 33 or or CCONJ CC _ 40 cc _ _ 34 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 32 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=40:advmod 35 " " PUNCT `` _ 40 punct _ _ 36 for for SCONJ IN _ 40 mark _ _ 37 " " PUNCT `` _ 40 punct _ _ 38 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 40 cop _ _ 39 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 40 nsubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=40:expl 40 possible possible ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 conj _ _ 41 " " PUNCT '' _ 40 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=29:punct 42 , , PUNCT , _ 44 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=43:punct 43 Australians australian PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 44 nsubj _ _ 44 say say VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 parataxis _ _ 45 " " PUNCT `` _ 46 punct _ _ 46 arvo arvo NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 obj _ _ 47 " " PUNCT '' _ 46 punct _ _ 48 for for ADP IN _ 49 case _ _ 49 afternoon afternoon NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 obl _ _ 50 , , PUNCT , _ 57 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=55:punct 51 and and CCONJ CC _ 55 cc _ _ 52 in in ADP IN _ 53 case _ _ 53 Ireland Ireland PROPN NNP Number=Sing 57 obl _ _ 54 " " PUNCT `` _ 55 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=53:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 55 wojus wojus NOUN NN Number=Sing 57 nsubj _ _ 56 " " PUNCT '' _ 55 punct _ _ 57 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 conj _ _ 58 terrible terrible ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 57 xcomp _ _ 59 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=17:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed voice=narrator | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Different places | practice | | | | places's own way *obl* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent it=Topic | | 2 | **give** *in a quote* | present · progressive | Z | prison | | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prison=Theme | | 3 | **mean** | present | Gen Z | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **feel** | present | Z | | | | | like prison | vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V S»: agent=Agent like prison=Theme | | 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Singaporeans | lah | | | | for emphasis | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent lah=Topic | | 6 | **is** *in a quote* | can | Z | | | | | possible *property* | tree rules | | 7 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Australians | arvo | | | afternoon | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent arvo=Topic | | 8 | **mean** | present | wojus | | | | | in Ireland; terrible *property* | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot in ireland=Attribute | 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:003-practising-when-you-would-rather-not.lesson:5`. **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 ×4, R6-punct-agree ×8, R7-rel-agree ×1, 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: [Practising when you would rather not, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/3-practising-when-you-would-rather-not/4/) - next →: [Practising when you would rather not, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/3-practising-when-you-would-rather-not/6/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/3-practising-when-you-would-rather-not/)