--- title: Scots say "cannae" for can't, "lassies" for girls, "dinnae greet" fo… — Singing, choirs and talent shows · tree and pragmatics description: Scots say "cannae" for can't, "lassies" for girls, "dinnae greet" for don't cry, "braw" for great and "hen" for dear; in Northern Ireland a "header" is a wild or mad person, and in Wales "lush" means lovely. Who acts: Scots, header, lush. 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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 (Scots, header, lush), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:arts:008-singing-choirs-and-talent-shows.lesson:4 # text = Scots say "cannae" for can't, "lassies" for girls, "dinnae greet" for don't cry, "braw" for great and "hen" for dear; in Northern Ireland a "header" is a wild or mad person, and in Wales "lush" means lovely. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = arts # lesson = 008-singing-choirs-and-talent-shows.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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×3, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Scots Scot PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=2:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur 2 say say VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 " " PUNCT `` _ 4 punct _ _ 4 cannae cannae NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 5 " " PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ _ 6 for for SCONJ IN _ 7 mark _ _ 7 ca can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 8 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 7 advmod _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 10 " " PUNCT `` _ 11 punct _ _ 11 lassies lassie NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 conj _ _ 12 " " PUNCT '' _ 11 punct _ _ 13 for for ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 girls girl NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 nmod _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 16 " " PUNCT `` _ 18 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=4:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 17 dinnae dinnae X FW Foreign=Yes 18 dep _ _ 18 greet greet VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 ccomp _ _ 19 " " PUNCT '' _ 18 punct _ _ 20 for for SCONJ IN _ 23 mark _ _ 21 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 aux _ _ 22 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 23 advmod _ _ 23 cry cry VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 18 advcl _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 25 " " PUNCT `` _ 26 punct _ _ 26 braw braw NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obj _ _ 27 " " PUNCT '' _ 26 punct _ _ 28 for for ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 29 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 obl _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 31 " " PUNCT `` _ 32 punct _ _ 32 hen hen NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=23:conj 33 " " PUNCT '' _ 32 punct _ _ 34 for for ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 35 dear dear ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 obl _ _ 36 ; ; PUNCT , _ 57 punct _ _ 37 in in ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 38 Northern Northern ADJ NNP Degree=Pos 39 amod _ _ 39 Ireland Ireland PROPN NNP Number=Sing 49 obl _ _ 40 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 42 det _ _ 41 " " PUNCT `` _ 42 punct _ _ 42 header header NOUN NN Number=Sing 49 nsubj _ _ 43 " " PUNCT '' _ 42 punct _ _ 44 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 49 cop _ _ 45 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 49 det _ _ 46 wild wild ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 49 amod _ _ 47 or or CCONJ CC _ 48 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=46:cc 48 mad mad ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 46 conj _ _ 49 person person NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 parataxis _ _ 50 , , PUNCT , _ 57 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=55:punct 51 and and CCONJ CC _ 57 cc _ _ 52 in in ADP IN _ 53 case _ _ 53 Wales Wales PROPN NNP Number=Sing 57 obl _ _ 54 " " PUNCT `` _ 55 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=53:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 55 lush lush NOUN NN Number=Sing 57 nsubj _ _ 56 " " PUNCT '' _ 55 punct _ _ 57 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 49 conj _ _ 58 lovely lovely ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 57 xcomp _ _ 59 . . 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 | Scots | cannae and lassies for girls | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **greet** *speech: greet* *in a quote* | infinitive | | | | | | | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **not** **cry** *speech: express* | present · do-support | | braw and hen | | | | for great; for dear | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent braw=Topic | | 4 | **is a** | present | a header | a wild person | | Northern Ireland | | | tree rules | | 5 | **mean** | present | lush | | | | | in Wales; lovely *property* | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot in wales=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:008-singing-choirs-and-talent-shows.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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×3, 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: [Singing, choirs and talent shows, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/8-singing-choirs-and-talent-shows/3/) - next →: [Singing, choirs and talent shows, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/8-singing-choirs-and-talent-shows/5/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/8-singing-choirs-and-talent-shows/)