--- title: People say it their own way: "numpty" means silly person in Scotland… — Copying vs being inspired: tracing, covers, givi… · tree and pragmatics description: People say it their own way: "numpty" means silly person in Scotland and the north, "da" is a friendly "mate" in Chennai, "eish" is a South African "wow" or "oh no", and "chur" in New Zealand means thanks or cheers. Who acts: People, numpty, da, eish. 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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, numpty, da, eish), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:arts:035-copying-vs-being-inspired-tracing-covers-giving-credit.lesson:4 # text = People say it their own way: "numpty" means silly person in Scotland and the north, "da" is a friendly "mate" in Chennai, "eish" is a South African "wow" or "oh no", and "chur" in New Zealand means thanks or cheers. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = arts # lesson = 035-copying-vs-being-inspired-tracing-covers-giving-credit.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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2, 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:unmarked _ _ 7 : : PUNCT : _ 11 punct _ _ 8 " " PUNCT `` _ 9 punct _ _ 9 numpty numpty NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 10 " " PUNCT '' _ 9 punct _ _ 11 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 ccomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:parataxis 12 silly silly ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 person person NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ _ 14 in in ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 Scotland Scotland PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 north north NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 conj _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 20 " " PUNCT `` _ 15 punct _ _ 21 da Da PROPN NNP Number=Sing 27 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=27:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 22 " " PUNCT '' _ 21 punct _ _ 23 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 cop _ _ 24 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 25 friendly friendly ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 26 " " PUNCT `` _ 27 punct _ _ 27 mate mate NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:ccomp 28 " " PUNCT '' _ 27 punct _ _ 29 in in ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 30 Chennai Chennai PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 31 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 32 " " PUNCT `` _ 33 punct _ _ 33 eish eish NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 nsubj _ _ 34 " " PUNCT '' _ 33 punct _ _ 35 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 37 cop _ _ 36 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 South South PROPN NNP Number=Sing 27 conj _ _ 38 African African ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 37 amod _ _ 39 " " PUNCT `` _ 40 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=55:punct 40 wow wow INTJ UH _ 55 discourse _ _ 41 " " PUNCT '' _ 40 punct _ _ 42 or or CCONJ CC _ 50 cc _ _ 43 " " PUNCT `` _ 50 punct _ _ 44 oh oh INTJ UH _ 50 discourse _ _ 45 no no INTJ UH Polarity=Neg 44 discourse _ _ 46 " " PUNCT '' _ 45 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=44:punct 47 , , PUNCT , _ 44 punct _ _ 48 and and CCONJ CC _ 50 cc _ _ 49 " " PUNCT `` _ 50 punct _ _ 50 chur chur NOUN NN Number=Sing 55 nsubj _ _ 51 " " PUNCT '' _ 50 punct _ _ 52 in in ADP IN _ 54 case _ _ 53 New New ADJ NNP Degree=Pos 54 amod _ _ 54 Zealand Zealand PROPN NNP Number=Sing 50 nmod _ _ 55 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 conj _ _ 56 thanks thanks NOUN NN Number=Sing 55 obj _ _ 57 or or CCONJ CC _ 58 cc _ _ 58 cheers cheer NOUN NNS Number=Plur 56 conj _ _ 59 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | People | name | | | | People's own way *obl:unmarked* | tree rules | | 2 | **mean** | present | numpty | silly person | | Scotland and the north | | in Chennai | tree rules | | 3 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | da | a friendly mate and a South | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **is a** | present | eish | a South | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **mean** | present | chur in New Zealand | thanks or cheers | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thanks=Topic | 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:035-copying-vs-being-inspired-tracing-covers-giving-credit.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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2, 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. 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