--- title: People say it their own way: "mardy" in the north of England means s… — Buildings and architecture · tree and pragmatics description: People say it their own way: "mardy" in the north of England means sulky, "summat" means something, "yaar" in India means mate, "aye" in Scotland means yes, and "wrecked" in Ireland means very tired. Who acts: People, mardy, summat, yaar. 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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, mardy, summat, yaar), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:arts:034-buildings-and-architecture.lesson:4 # text = People say it their own way: "mardy" in the north of England means sulky, "summat" means something, "yaar" in India means mate, "aye" in Scotland means yes, and "wrecked" in Ireland means very tired. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = arts # lesson = 034-buildings-and-architecture.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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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 2 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:nsubj 7 : : PUNCT : _ 9 punct _ _ 8 " " PUNCT `` _ 9 punct _ _ 9 mardy mardy NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:acl:relcl|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 10 " " PUNCT '' _ 9 punct _ _ 11 in in ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 north north NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 14 of of ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 England England PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 nmod _ _ 16 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 ccomp _ _ 17 sulky sulky ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 obj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=20:amod 18 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 19 " " PUNCT `` _ 20 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=17:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 20 summat summat NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nsubj _ _ 21 " " PUNCT '' _ 20 punct _ _ 22 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 ccomp _ _ 23 something something PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 22 obj _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 25 " " PUNCT `` _ 26 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=26:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 26 yaar yaar NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 nsubj _ _ 27 " " PUNCT '' _ 26 punct _ _ 28 in in ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 29 India India PROPN NNP Number=Sing 30 obl _ _ 30 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 acl:relcl _ _ 31 mate mate NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obj _ _ 32 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 33 " " PUNCT `` _ 34 punct _ _ 34 aye aye NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 appos _ _ 35 " " PUNCT '' _ 34 punct _ _ 36 in in ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 37 Scotland Scotland PROPN NNP Number=Sing 26 nmod _ _ 38 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 39 yes yes INTJ UH Polarity=Pos 38 discourse _ _ 40 , , PUNCT , _ 43 punct _ _ 41 and and CCONJ CC _ 43 cc _ _ 42 " " PUNCT `` _ 43 punct _ _ 43 wrecked wreck VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 47 csubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=47:nsubj 44 " " PUNCT '' _ 43 punct _ _ 45 in in ADP IN _ 46 case _ _ 46 Ireland Ireland PROPN NNP Number=Sing 47 obl _ _ 47 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 38 conj _ _ 48 very very ADV RB _ 49 advmod _ _ 49 tired tired ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 47 xcomp _ _ 50 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=38: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 | Taste | | | | People's own way *obl* | tree rules | | 2 | **mean** | present | mardy | sulky | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **mean** | present | summat | something | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Topic | | 4 | **mean** | present | yaar in Scotland *not said here* | India | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mate=Topic | | 5 | **mean** | present | yaar in Scotland | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **wreck** *in a quote* | participle | | | | | | | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **mean** | present | yaar in Scotland *not said here* | | | | | in Ireland; tired *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:034-buildings-and-architecture.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 ×2, 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: [Buildings and architecture, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/34-buildings-and-architecture/3/) - next →: [Buildings and architecture, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/34-buildings-and-architecture/5/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/34-buildings-and-architecture/)