--- title: People say it their own way: "nesh" in Yorkshire means soft or easil… — Being bad at something and keeping going · tree and pragmatics description: People say it their own way: "nesh" in Yorkshire means soft or easily hurt, "peng" in London means brilliant, "butt" in Wales means mate, "lush" means lovely, and "the GOAT" means the greatest of all time. Who acts: People, nesh, peng, butt. 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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, nesh, peng, butt), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:arts:037-being-bad-at-something-and-keeping-going.lesson:4 # text = People say it their own way: "nesh" in Yorkshire means soft or easily hurt, "peng" in London means brilliant, "butt" in Wales means mate, "lush" means lovely, and "the GOAT" means the greatest of all time. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = arts # lesson = 037-being-bad-at-something-and-keeping-going.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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×2, 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 2 obl _ _ 7 : : PUNCT : _ 9 punct _ _ 8 " " PUNCT `` _ 9 punct _ _ 9 nesh nesh NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 10 " " PUNCT '' _ 9 punct _ _ 11 in in ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 Yorkshire Yorkshire PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 nmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:obl 13 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 ccomp _ _ 14 soft soft ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 obj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=13:xcomp 15 or or CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 16 easily easily ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 17 hurt hurt VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 14 conj _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=20:punct 19 " " PUNCT `` _ 20 punct _ _ 20 peng peng NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nsubj _ _ 21 " " PUNCT '' _ 20 punct _ _ 22 in in ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 London London PROPN NNP Number=Sing 20 nmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=24:obl 24 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 parataxis _ _ 25 brilliant brilliant ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 xcomp _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 27 " " PUNCT `` _ 28 punct _ _ 28 butt butt NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 nsubj _ _ 29 " " PUNCT '' _ 28 punct _ _ 30 in in ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 31 Wales Wales PROPN NNP Number=Sing 32 obl _ _ 32 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 parataxis _ _ 33 mate mate NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obj _ _ 34 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 35 " " PUNCT `` _ 36 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=33:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 36 lush lush NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 nsubj _ _ 37 " " PUNCT '' _ 36 punct _ _ 38 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 parataxis _ _ 39 lovely lovely ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 xcomp _ _ 40 , , PUNCT , _ 46 punct _ _ 41 and and CCONJ CC _ 46 cc _ _ 42 " " PUNCT `` _ 44 punct _ _ 43 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 44 det _ _ 44 GOAT goat NOUN NN Number=Sing 46 nsubj _ _ 45 " " PUNCT '' _ 44 punct _ _ 46 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 38 conj _ _ 47 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 48 det _ _ 48 greatest great ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 46 obj _ _ 49 of of ADP IN _ 51 case _ _ 50 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 51 det _ _ 51 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 48 nmod _ _ 52 . . 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 | spin | | | | people's own way *obl* | tree rules | | 2 | **mean** | present | nesh in Yorkshire | soft | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent soft=Topic | | 3 | **hurt** | participle | nesh in Yorkshire *not said here* | | | | | easily *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | | 4 | **mean** | present | peng in London | | | | | brilliant *property* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **mean** | present | butt | Wales | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mate=Topic | | 6 | **mean** | present | lush | | | | | lovely *property* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **mean** | present | the GOAT | the greatest of all time | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent great=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:037-being-bad-at-something-and-keeping-going.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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×2, 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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