--- title: Talk in this lesson: «it's giving» = it seems like; «bostin'» (Black… — Just So Stories, The Cat that Walked by Himself,… · tree and pragmatics description: Talk in this lesson: «it's giving» = it seems like; «bostin'» (Black Country) = brilliant; «eh» (Canada) = right? isn't it? Who acts: you, life, it. 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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, life, it), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:books:095-justso-cat-3-the-cat-walks-by-himself.lesson:33 # text = Talk in this lesson: «it's giving» = it seems like; «bostin'» (Black Country) = brilliant; «eh» (Canada) = right? isn't it? # source = school lesson (ours) # course = books # lesson = 095-justso-cat-3-the-cat-walks-by-himself.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, R8-pos-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 : _ 1 punct _ _ 6 « « PUNCT `` _ 9 punct _ _ 7 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 8 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 aux _ _ 9 giving give VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 1 advcl _ _ 10 » » PUNCT '' _ 9 punct _ _ 11 = = PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 12 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 13 seems seem VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 parataxis _ _ 14 like like ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 15 ; ; PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 16 « « PUNCT `` _ 17 punct _ _ 17 bostin bostin NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 18 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 17 punct _ _ 19 » » PUNCT '' _ 17 punct _ _ 20 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 22 punct _ _ 21 Black Black ADJ NNP Degree=Pos 22 compound _ _ 22 Country Country PROPN NNP Number=Sing 17 appos _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=17:appos|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 23 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 22 punct _ _ 24 = = PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 25 brilliant brilliant ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 parataxis _ _ 26 ; ; PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 27 « « PUNCT `` _ 28 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=13:punct 28 eh eh INTJ UH _ 13 discourse _ _ 29 » » PUNCT '' _ 28 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=13:punct 30 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 31 punct _ _ 31 Canada Canada PROPN NNP Number=Sing 28 appos _ _ 32 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 31 punct _ _ 33 = = PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 34 right right INTJ UH _ 1 discourse _ _ 35 ? ? PUNCT . _ 36 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=38:punct 36 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 38 cop _ _ 37 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 36 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=38:advmod 38 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 1 obl _ _ 39 ? ? 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 | **give** *in a quote* | present · progressive | life | | | | | | vn break\_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient | | 3 | **seem** | present | it | | | | | like bostin | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **is a** | present | | life | | | | | 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:095-justso-cat-3-the-cat-walks-by-himself.lesson:33`. **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, R8-pos-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. 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