--- title: People say it their own way: "well mint" is northern English for rea… — Crafts: paper, clay, sewing, knitting, slime · tree and pragmatics description: People say it their own way: "well mint" is northern English for really great, "sweet as" in Australia means fine, "wee" in Scotland means small, and "deadly" in Ireland means brilliant. Who acts: People, own way, wee. 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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 (People, own way, wee), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:arts:031-crafts-paper-clay-sewing-knitting-slime.lesson:4 # text = People say it their own way: "well mint" is northern English for really great, "sweet as" in Australia means fine, "wee" in Scotland means small, and "deadly" in Ireland means brilliant. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = arts # lesson = 031-crafts-paper-clay-sewing-knitting-slime.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, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 People people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 say say VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 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 14 nsubj _ _ 7 : : PUNCT : _ 10 punct _ _ 8 " " PUNCT `` _ 10 punct _ _ 9 well well ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 mint mint NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 appos _ _ 11 " " PUNCT '' _ 10 punct _ _ 12 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 cop _ _ 13 northern northern ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 English English PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 ccomp _ _ 15 for for ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 really really ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 17 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 nmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=14:obl 18 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 19 " " PUNCT `` _ 20 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=14:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 20 sweet sweet ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 parataxis _ _ 21 as as SCONJ IN _ 25 mark _ _ 22 " " PUNCT `` _ 25 punct _ _ 23 in in ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 Australia Australia PROPN NNP Number=Sing 25 obl _ _ 25 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 advcl _ _ 26 fine fine ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 conj _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 28 " " PUNCT `` _ 29 punct _ _ 29 wee wee NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 nsubj _ _ 30 " " PUNCT '' _ 29 punct _ _ 31 in in ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 32 Scotland Scotland PROPN NNP Number=Sing 33 obl _ _ 33 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 parataxis _ _ 34 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 ccomp _ _ 35 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 36 and and CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 37 " " PUNCT `` _ 38 punct _ _ 38 deadly deadly ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 parataxis _ _ 39 " " PUNCT '' _ 38 punct _ _ 40 in in ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 41 Ireland Ireland PROPN NNP Number=Sing 42 obl _ _ 42 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 33 conj _ _ 43 brilliant brilliant ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 42 xcomp _ _ 44 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | People | skin | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent it=Topic | | 2 | **is a** | present | People's own way | northern English | | | | for great | tree rules | | 3 | **mean** | present | People's own way *not said here* | | | | | in Australia | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot in australia=Attribute | | 4 | **mean** | present | wee | | | | | in Scotland | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot in scotland=Attribute | | 5 | **mean** | present | wee *not said here* | | | | | in Ireland; brilliant *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:031-crafts-paper-clay-sewing-knitting-slime.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, 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. 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