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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 (you, Africa, that), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:books:057-willows-ch9-part2-the-swallows.lesson:28 # text = Talk in this lesson: «nesh» (North England, Midlands) = feeling the cold easily; «arvo» (Australia) = afternoon; «chur» (New Zealand) = thanks, cool; «slay» = do brilliantly; «I'm dead» = that's so funny. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = books # lesson = 057-willows-ch9-part2-the-swallows.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): no change 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 « « PUNCT `` _ 7 punct _ _ 7 nesh nesh NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 8 » » PUNCT '' _ 7 punct _ _ 9 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 11 punct _ _ 10 North North PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 compound _ _ 11 England England PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 appos _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 13 Midlands Midlands PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 conj _ _ 14 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 11 punct _ _ 15 = = SYM SYM _ 16 punct _ _ 16 feeling feel VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 1 conj _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 cold cold ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 obj _ _ 19 easily easily ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 20 ; ; PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 21 « « PUNCT `` _ 22 punct _ _ 22 arvo arvo NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ _ 23 » » PUNCT '' _ 22 punct _ _ 24 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 25 punct _ _ 25 Australia Australia PROPN NNP Number=Sing 22 appos _ _ 26 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 25 punct _ _ 27 = = SYM SYM _ 28 punct _ _ 28 afternoon afternoon NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 conj _ _ 29 ; ; PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 30 « « PUNCT `` _ 31 punct _ _ 31 chur chur NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 compound _ _ 32 » » PUNCT '' _ 31 punct _ _ 33 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 35 punct _ _ 34 New New PROPN NNP _ 35 compound _ _ 35 Zealand Zealand PROPN NNP Number=Sing 31 appos _ _ 36 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 35 punct _ _ 37 = = SYM SYM _ 31 punct _ _ 38 thanks thanks NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 conj _ _ 39 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 40 cool cool ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 amod _ _ 41 ; ; PUNCT , _ 43 punct _ _ 42 « « PUNCT `` _ 43 punct _ _ 43 slay slay VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 1 conj _ _ 44 » » PUNCT '' _ 43 punct _ _ 45 = = SYM SYM _ 47 punct _ _ 46 do do VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 43 conj _ _ 47 brilliantly brilliantly ADV RB _ 46 advmod _ _ 48 ; ; PUNCT , _ 53 punct _ _ 49 « « PUNCT `` _ 52 punct _ _ 50 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 52 nsubj _ _ 51 'm be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 52 cop _ _ 52 dead dead ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 43 conj _ _ 53 » » PUNCT '' _ 52 punct _ _ 54 = = SYM SYM _ 58 punct _ _ 55 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 58 nsubj _ _ 56 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 58 cop _ _ 57 so so ADV RB _ 58 advmod _ _ 58 funny funny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 1 conj _ _ 59 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **talk** | imperative | you *not said here* | nesh | | this lesson | | arvo and afternoon and chur thanks *obl* | vn compel-59.1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent nesh=Patient | | 2 | **feel** | gerund | you *not said here* | the cold | | | | easily *property* | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cold=Theme | | 3 | **slay** *in a quote* | infinitive | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **do** | present | you *not said here* | | | | | brilliantly *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **is** *in a quote* | present | Africa | | | | | dead *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **is** | present | that | | | | | funny *property* | tree rules | 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. 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