--- title: People say it their own way: "eh" in Canada means right?, "yaar" in… — Show day: the exhibition, the concert and the bi… · tree and pragmatics description: People say it their own way: "eh" in Canada means right?, "yaar" in India means mate, "bestie" means best friend, "stuffed" in Australia means broken, and "bare" in London means very. Who acts: People, eh, yaar, bestie. 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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, eh, yaar, bestie), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:arts:040-show-day-the-exhibition-the-concert-and-the-big-arts-quiz.lesson:4 # text = People say it their own way: "eh" in Canada means right?, "yaar" in India means mate, "bestie" means best friend, "stuffed" in Australia means broken, and "bare" in London means very. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = arts # lesson = 040-show-day-the-exhibition-the-concert-and-the-big-arts-quiz.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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×2, 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:unmarked _ _ 7 : : PUNCT : _ 9 punct _ _ 8 " " PUNCT `` _ 9 punct _ _ 9 eh eh NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 10 " " PUNCT '' _ 9 punct _ _ 11 in in ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 Canada Canada PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 nmod _ _ 13 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 ccomp _ _ 14 right right ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 xcomp _ _ 15 ? ? PUNCT . _ 13 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=2:punct 16 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 17 " " PUNCT `` _ 18 punct _ _ 18 yaar yaar NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nsubj _ _ 19 " " PUNCT '' _ 18 punct _ _ 20 in in ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 India India PROPN NNP Number=Sing 18 nmod _ _ 22 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 conj _ _ 23 mate mate NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obj _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 25 " " PUNCT `` _ 26 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=26:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 26 bestie bestie NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nsubj _ _ 27 " " PUNCT '' _ 26 punct _ _ 28 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 29 best good ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 30 amod _ _ 30 friend friend NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obj _ _ 31 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 32 " " PUNCT `` _ 33 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=33:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 33 stuffed stuff VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 37 nsubj _ _ 34 " " PUNCT '' _ 33 punct _ _ 35 in in ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 36 Australia Australia PROPN NNP Number=Sing 33 obl _ _ 37 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 ccomp _ _ 38 broken break VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 37 ccomp _ _ 39 , , PUNCT , _ 42 punct _ _ 40 and and CCONJ CC _ 42 cc _ _ 41 " " PUNCT `` _ 42 punct _ _ 42 bare bare ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 46 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=28:ccomp 43 " " PUNCT '' _ 42 punct _ _ 44 in in SCONJ IN _ 46 mark _ _ 45 London London PROPN NNP Number=Sing 46 nsubj _ _ 46 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 conj _ _ 47 very very ADV RB _ 46 advmod _ _ 48 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=28:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: character - 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 | work | | | | people's own way *obl:unmarked* | tree rules | | 2 | **mean** | present | eh in Canada | | | | | right *property* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **mean** | present | yaar in India | mate | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mate=Topic | | 4 | **mean** | present | bestie | best friend | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **stuff** *in a quote* | participle | | | | Australia | | | vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in australia=Destination | | 6 | **mean** | present | | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 7 | **break** | participle | | | | | | | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | | 8 | **mean** | present | bare | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | 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:040-show-day-the-exhibition-the-concert-and-the-big-arts-quiz.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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×2, 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/). - ← previous: [Show day: the exhibition, the concert…, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/40-show-day-the-exhibition-the-concert-and-the-big-arts-quiz/3/) - next →: [Show day: the exhibition, the concert…, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/40-show-day-the-exhibition-the-concert-and-the-big-arts-quiz/5/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/40-show-day-the-exhibition-the-concert-and-the-big-arts-quiz/)