--- title: Why's that, my lover?» («proper job» is West Country for well done,… — Author's choices: why this word, why this way · tree and pragmatics description: Why's that, my lover?» («proper job» is West Country for well done, and «my lover» is just a friendly way to say mate.) The posh voice can make the baddie seem cold and powerful. Who acts: that, proper job, lover, posh voice. 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The posh voice can make the baddie seem cold and powerful. **Who acts:** that, proper job, lover, posh voice, baddie · **What happens:** be, do, say, make, seem · **To what, where:** lover, West Country, friendly way, mate · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «Author's choices: why this word, why this way» of the english 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 (that, proper job, lover, posh voice), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:english:021-authors-choices-why-this-word-why-this-way.lesson:10 # text = Why's that, my lover?» («proper job» is West Country for well done, and «my lover» is just a friendly way to say mate.) The posh voice can make the baddie seem cold and powerful. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = english # lesson = 021-authors-choices-why-this-word-why-this-way.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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Why why ADV WRB PronType=Int 6 advmod _ _ 2 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 3 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 6 nsubj _ _ 4 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 5 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 6 nmod:poss _ _ 6 lover lover NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 parataxis _ _ 7 ? ? PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ 8 » » PUNCT '' _ 6 punct _ _ 9 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 16 punct _ _ 10 « « PUNCT `` _ 12 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=16:punct 11 proper proper ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 job job NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ _ 13 » » PUNCT '' _ 12 punct _ _ 14 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 cop _ _ 15 West West PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 compound _ _ 16 Country Country PROPN NNP Number=Sing 40 parataxis _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=40:parataxis|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 17 for for ADP IN _ 19 case _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=19:mark|HaikuPos=SCONJ:IN:_ 18 well well ADV RB Degree=Pos 19 advmod _ _ 19 done do VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 16 acl _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 22 « « PUNCT `` _ 24 punct _ _ 23 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 24 nmod:poss _ _ 24 lover lover NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nsubj _ _ 25 » » PUNCT '' _ 24 punct _ _ 26 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 30 cop _ _ 27 just just ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ _ 28 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 29 friendly friendly ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 30 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 conj _ _ 31 to to PART TO _ 32 mark _ _ 32 say say VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 30 acl _ _ 33 mate mate NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obj _ _ 34 . . PUNCT . _ 16 punct _ _ 35 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 16 punct _ _ 36 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 37 posh posh ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 amod _ _ 38 voice voice NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 nsubj _ _ 39 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 40 aux _ _ 40 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 41 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 42 det _ _ 42 baddie baddie NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 nsubj _ _ 43 seem seem VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 40 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=40:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBP:Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 44 cold cold ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 43 xcomp _ _ 45 and and CCONJ CC _ 46 cc _ _ 46 powerful powerful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 44 conj _ _ 47 . . PUNCT . _ 40 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed indirect=0, polarity=none, voice=narrator | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | that | my lover | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | proper job | West Country and a friendly way | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **do** *in a quote* | participle | | West Country and a friendly way *not said here* | | | | well *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | my lover | a friendly way | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | to-infinitive | proper job *not said here* | mate | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent mate=Topic | | 6 | **make** *in a quote* | can | the posh voice | | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **seem** *in a quote* | infinitive | the baddie | | | | | cold *property* | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme | 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:english:021-authors-choices-why-this-word-why-this-way.lesson:10`. **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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, 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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