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title: Talk in this lesson: «salty» = annoyed; «hun» = dear; «yinz» (Pittsb… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter IX, part 1: Way… · tree and pragmatics
description: Talk in this lesson: «salty» = annoyed; «hun» = dear; «yinz» (Pittsburgh) = you lot; «ginnel» (North England) = a narrow alley; «bostin'» (Black Country) = great. Who acts: you, ginnel. A sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter IX, part 1: Wayfarers All (change in the air)» of the b
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# The Wind in the Willows, chapter IX, part 1: Wayfarers All (change in the air), sentence 23

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Talk in this lesson: «salty» = annoyed; «hun» = dear; «yinz» (Pittsburgh) = you lot; «ginnel» (North England) = a narrow alley; «bostin'» (Black Country) = great.

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**Who acts:** you, ginnel · **What happens:** talk, lot, = · **To what, where:** yinz, lesson

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter IX, part 1: Wayfarers All (change in the air)» 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, ginnel), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:books:056-willows-ch9-part1-change-in-the-air.lesson:23
# text = Talk in this lesson: «salty» = annoyed; «hun» = dear; «yinz» (Pittsburgh) = you lot; «ginnel» (North England) = a narrow alley; «bostin'» (Black Country) = great.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = books
# lesson = 056-willows-ch9-part1-change-in-the-air.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, 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	«	«	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	appos	_	_
7	salty	salty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod:unmarked	_	_
8	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=1:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:.:_
9	=	=	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	annoyed	annoyed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	parataxis	_	_
11	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
12	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos
13	hun	hun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	»	»	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
15	=	=	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	dear	dear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	conj	_	_
17	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	«	«	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	yinz	yinz	PROPN	ADD	_	1	obl	_	_
20	»	»	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	list	_	_
21	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	22	punct	_	_
22	Pittsburgh	Pittsburgh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	appos	_	_
23	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	22	punct	_	_
24	=	=	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
26	lot	lot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	appos	_	_
27	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
28	«	«	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	ginnel	ginnel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	nsubj	_	_
30	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	29	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=33:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_
31	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	33	punct	_	_
32	North	North	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	compound	_	_
33	England	England	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	appos	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=29:nmod:unmarked
34	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	33	punct	_	_
35	=	=	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
36	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
37	narrow	narrow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
38	alley	alley	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	appos	_	_
39	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
40	«	«	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
41	bostin	bostin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	appos	_	_
42	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	41	punct	_	_
43	»	»	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	flat	_	_
44	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	46	punct	_	_
45	Black	Black	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	46	compound	_	_
46	Country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	appos	_	_
47	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	46	punct	_	_
48	=	=	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	ccomp	_	_
49	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	48	xcomp	_	_
50	.	.	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* | yinz |  | this lesson |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **lot** |  | you |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **=** | present | «'s ginnel |  |  |  |  | great *property* | 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:056-willows-ch9-part1-change-in-the-air.lesson:23`.

**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, 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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