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title: Talk in this lesson: «highkey» = very, openly; «nesh» (North and Mid… — Just So Stories, How the Alphabet Was Made, part… · tree and pragmatics
description: Talk in this lesson: «highkey» = very, openly; «nesh» (North and Midlands England) = feels the cold easily; «lekker» (South Africa) = nice, great. Who acts: you, nesh. A sentence of the lesson «Just So Stories, How the Alphabet Was Made, part 1: a carp-fish's mouth, a tail, an egg and a snake» of th
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# Just So Stories, How the Alphabet Was Made, part 1: a carp-fish's mouth, a tail, an egg and a snake, sentence 24

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Talk in this lesson: «highkey» = very, openly; «nesh» (North and Midlands England) = feels the cold easily; «lekker» (South Africa) = nice, great.

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**Who acts:** you, nesh · **What happens:** talk, feel · **To what, where:** lesson, cold

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Just So Stories, How the Alphabet Was Made, part 1: a carp-fish's mouth, a tail, an egg and a snake» 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, nesh), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:books:087-justso-alphabet-1-a-carp-fishs-mouth.lesson:24
# text = Talk in this lesson: «highkey» = very, openly; «nesh» (North and Midlands England) = feels the cold easily; «lekker» (South Africa) = nice, great.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = books
# lesson = 087-justso-alphabet-1-a-carp-fishs-mouth.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): R6-punct-agree ×2
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	ExtPos=PROPN	4	appos	_	_
7	highkey	highkey	X	NN	_	6	goeswith	_	_
8	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=6:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_
9	=	=	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
10	very	very	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=10:punct
12	openly	openly	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
13	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
14	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	_
15	nesh	nesh	X	FW	_	24	nsubj	_	_
16	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	15	punct	_	_
17	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	21	punct	_	_
18	North	North	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	Midlands	Midlands	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	_
21	England	England	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	appos	_	_
22	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	21	punct	_	_
23	=	=	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
24	feels	feel	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	obj	_	_
27	easily	easily	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
28	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
29	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	30	punct	_	_
30	lekker	lekker	X	FW	_	1	parataxis	_	_
31	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	30	punct	_	_
32	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	34	punct	_	_
33	South	South	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	compound	_	_
34	Africa	Africa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	appos	_	_
35	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	34	punct	_	_
36	=	=	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
37	nice	nice	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	parataxis	_	_
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
39	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	conj	_	_
40	.	.	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* |  |  | this lesson |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **feel** | present | nesh | the cold |  |  |  | easily *property* | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cold=Theme |

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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:087-justso-alphabet-1-a-carp-fishs-mouth.lesson:24`.

**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): R6-punct-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/).

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