--- title: Talk in this lesson: «mid» = only so-so, not good; «gurt» (West Coun… — Just So Stories, How the Alphabet Was Made, part… · tree and pragmatics description: Talk in this lesson: «mid» = only so-so, not good; «gurt» (West Country) = great, big; «dreich» (Scotland) = grey, wet, gloomy weather. Who acts: you. 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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), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:books:088-justso-alphabet-2-shu-ya-sky-water.lesson:31 # text = Talk in this lesson: «mid» = only so-so, not good; «gurt» (West Country) = great, big; «dreich» (Scotland) = grey, wet, gloomy weather. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = books # lesson = 088-justso-alphabet-2-shu-ya-sky-water.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 ×3 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 : _ 8 punct _ _ 6 « « PUNCT `` _ 7 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=8:punct 7 mid mid X AFX _ 4 appos _ _ 8 » » PUNCT '' _ 7 punct _ _ 9 = = PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 10 only only ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 11 so so ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 12 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 11 punct _ _ 13 so so ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=16:punct 15 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 16 advmod _ _ 16 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 conj _ _ 17 ; ; PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 18 « « PUNCT `` _ 19 punct _ _ 19 gurt gurt VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 1 conj _ _ 20 » » PUNCT '' _ 19 punct _ _ 21 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 23 punct _ _ 22 West West PROPN NNP Number=Sing 23 compound _ _ 23 Country country NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 appos _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=25:obl 24 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 23 punct _ _ 25 = = VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 advcl _ _ 26 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 xcomp _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 28 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 conj _ _ 29 ; ; PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 30 « « PUNCT `` _ 31 punct _ _ 31 dreich dreich ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 1 conj _ _ 32 » » PUNCT '' _ 31 punct _ _ 33 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 34 punct _ _ 34 Scotland Scotland PROPN NNP Number=Sing 31 appos _ _ 35 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 34 punct _ _ 36 = = PUNCT , _ 42 punct _ _ 37 grey grey ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 42 amod _ _ 38 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=37:punct 39 wet wet ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 42 amod _ _ 40 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 41 gloomy gloomy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 42 amod _ _ 42 weather weather NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 appos _ _ 43 . . 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* | | | this lesson | | | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **gurt** *in a quote* | infinitive | you *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **=** | present | you *not said here* | | | | | great *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. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:books:088-justso-alphabet-2-shu-ya-sky-water.lesson:31`. **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 ×3. **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: [Just So Stories, How the Alphabet Was…, 29](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/88-justso-alphabet-2-shu-ya-sky-water/29/) - next →: [Just So Stories, How the Alphabet Was…, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/89-justso-alphabet-3-the-alphabet-all-complete/2/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/88-justso-alphabet-2-shu-ya-sky-water/)