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title: People say it their own way: "howay" in the North East means come on… — Design all around: logos, brands, packaging, fonts · tree and pragmatics
description: People say it their own way: "howay" in the North East means come on, "ya eejit" in Ireland is a cheeky "you idiot", "yeah nah" in Australia means no, and "chatting rubbish" means talking nonsense. Who acts: People, howay, ya eejit, rubbish. A sentence of the lesson «Design all around: logos, brands
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# Design all around: logos, brands, packaging, fonts, sentence 4

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People say it their own way: "howay" in the North East means come on, "ya eejit" in Ireland is a cheeky "you idiot", "yeah nah" in Australia means no, and "chatting rubbish" means talking nonsense.

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**Who acts:** People, howay, ya eejit, rubbish · **What happens:** say, mean, come on, be, chat, talk · **To what, where:** red, cheeky idiot, nonsense · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Design all around: logos, brands, packaging, fonts» 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, howay, ya eejit, rubbish), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:arts:033-design-all-around-logos-brands-packaging-fonts.lesson:4
# text = People say it their own way: "howay" in the North East means come on, "ya eejit" in Ireland is a cheeky "you idiot", "yeah nah" in Australia means no, and "chatting rubbish" means talking nonsense.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = arts
# lesson = 033-design-all-around-logos-brands-packaging-fonts.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 ×3, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3, 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	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	2	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:nsubj
7	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	_
8	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	_
9	howay	howay	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:appos
10	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	North	North	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=14:amod
14	East	East	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:nmod
15	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	ccomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj
16	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	ccomp	_	_
17	on	on	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
19	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	21	punct	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=21:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_
20	ya	ya	X	FW	_	21	compound	_	_
21	eejit	eejit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	_
22	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	21	punct	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	Ireland	Ireland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
25	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	30	cop	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
27	cheeky	cheeky	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
28	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	30	punct	_	_
29	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
30	idiot	idiot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	parataxis	_	_
31	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	30	punct	_	_
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
33	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	35	punct	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=35:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_
34	yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	35	discourse	_	_
35	nah	nah	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	appos	_	_
36	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	35	punct	_	_
37	in	in	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	Australia	Australia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
39	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
40	no	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	39	discourse	_	_
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
42	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	44	cc	_	_
43	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	44	punct	_	_
44	chatting	chat	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	45	acl	_	_
45	rubbish	rubbish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	nsubj	_	_
46	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	45	punct	_	_
47	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	39	conj	_	_
48	talking	talk	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	47	xcomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=47:ccomp
49	nonsense	nonsense	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	obj	_	_
50	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=39:punct
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed 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 | red |  |  |  | People's own way *obl* | tree rules |
| 2 | **mean** | present | howay in the North East |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **come on** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | ya eejit in Ireland in Australia | a cheeky idiot |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **mean** | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 6 | **chat** *speech: other* *in a quote* | gerund | rubbish *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn chit\_chat-37.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **mean** | present | rubbish |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 8 | **talk** *not said to happen* | gerund | rubbish *not said here* | nonsense |  |  |  |  | vn compel-59.1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent nonsense=Patient |

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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:033-design-all-around-logos-brands-packaging-fonts.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): R5-strong ×3, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3, 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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