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title: Talk in this lesson: «innit» (London) = isn't it; «no cap» = no lie,… — Alice in Wonderland, chapter VII, part 1: A Mad… · tree and pragmatics
description: Talk in this lesson: «innit» (London) = isn't it; «no cap» = no lie, honestly; «mardy» (North and Midlands England) = sulky; «yinz» (Pittsburgh, USA) = you lot; «canny» (North East England) = quite, or nice. Who acts: you. A sentence of the lesson «Alice in Wonderland, chapter VII, part 1: A Mad Tea
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# Alice in Wonderland, chapter VII, part 1: A Mad Tea-Party (no room, riddles and Time), sentence 28

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Talk in this lesson: «innit» (London) = isn't it; «no cap» = no lie, honestly; «mardy» (North and Midlands England) = sulky; «yinz» (Pittsburgh, USA) = you lot; «canny» (North East England) = quite, or nice.

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** talk, not be, mardy · **To what, where:** «, lesson, beat, »

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Alice in Wonderland, chapter VII, part 1: A Mad Tea-Party (no room, riddles and Time)» of the books course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:books:013-alice-a-mad-tea-party-1.lesson:28
# text = Talk in this lesson: «innit» (London) = isn't it; «no cap» = no lie, honestly; «mardy» (North and Midlands England) = sulky; «yinz» (Pittsburgh, USA) = you lot; «canny» (North East England) = quite, or nice.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = books
# lesson = 013-alice-a-mad-tea-party-1.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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Talk	talk	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	det	_	_
4	lesson	lesson	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
5	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	6	punct	_	_
6	«	«	X	GW	_	1	obj	_	_
7	innit	innit	X	GW	_	6	goeswith	_	_
8	»	»	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	goeswith	_	_
9	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	10	punct	_	_
10	London	London	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	parataxis	_	_
11	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	10	punct	_	_
12	=	=	SYM	SYM	_	6	punct	_	_
13	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
14	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	15	advmod	_	_
15	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	goeswith	_	_
16	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	«	«	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	19	det	_	_
19	cap	cap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	flat	_	_
20	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	19	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=6:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_
21	=	=	SYM	SYM	_	23	punct	_	_
22	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	23	det	_	_
23	lie	lie	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
25	honestly	honestly	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
26	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
27	«	«	PART	TO	_	28	mark	_	_
28	mardy	mardy	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
29	»	»	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	obj	_	_
30	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	34	punct	_	_
31	North	North	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	compound	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
33	Midlands	Midlands	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	conj	_	_
34	England	England	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	_
35	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	34	punct	_	_
36	=	=	SYM	SYM	_	37	punct	_	_
37	sulky	sulky	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	parataxis	_	_
38	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
39	«	«	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	40	nsubj	_	_
40	yinz	yinz	PROPN	ADD	_	41	compound	_	_
41	»	»	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
42	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	43	punct	_	_
43	Pittsburgh	Pittsburgh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	41	appos	_	_
44	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
45	USA	USA	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	43	nmod:unmarked	_	_
46	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	43	punct	_	_
47	=	=	SYM	SYM	_	49	punct	_	_
48	you	you	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	49	nmod:poss	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=49:nsubj|HaikuPos=PRON:PRP:Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs
49	lot	lot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	conj	_	_
50	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	53	punct	_	_
51	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	52	punct	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=53:cc|HaikuPos=CCONJ:CC:_
52	canny	canny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	53	amod	_	_
53	»	»	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	41	appos	_	_
54	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	57	punct	_	_
55	North	North	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	56	compound	_	_
56	East	East	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	57	compound	_	_
57	England	England	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	53	appos	_	_
58	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	57	punct	_	_
59	=	=	SYM	SYM	_	53	punct	_	_
60	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
61	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	63	punct	_	_
62	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	63	cc	_	_
63	nice	nice	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	parataxis	_	_
64	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **talk** | imperative | you *not said here* | « and no lie |  | this lesson |  | yinz » and you's lot *obl*; honestly *property* | vn compel-59.1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent «=Patient |
| 2 | **not** **is a** | present |  | beat |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **mardy** *in a quote* | infinitive | you *not said here* | » |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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.

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**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:books:013-alice-a-mad-tea-party-1.lesson:28`.

**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 ×1, 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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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