--- title: Mark in Bristol says, «Proper job, the writer made the baddie talk a… — Author's choices: why this word, why this way · tree and pragmatics description: Mark in Bristol says, «Proper job, the writer made the baddie talk all posh. Who acts: Mark, writer, baddie. A sentence of the lesson «Author's choices: why this word, why this way» of the english course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/21-authors-choices-why-this-word-why-this-way/9/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [English](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/) / [Author's choices: why this word, why t…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/21-authors-choices-why-this-word-why-this-way/) / 9 # Author's choices: why this word, why this way, sentence 9 Mark in Bristol says, «Proper job, the writer made the baddie talk all posh. **Who acts:** Mark, writer, baddie · **What happens:** say, make, talk · **To what, where:** baddie · **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 (Mark, writer, baddie), 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:9 # text = Mark in Bristol says, «Proper job, the writer made the baddie talk all posh. # 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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Mark Mark PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 2 in in ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 3 Bristol Bristol PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 nmod _ _ 4 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 6 « « PUNCT `` _ 8 punct _ _ 7 Proper proper ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 job job NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=12:punct 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 writer writer NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ _ 12 made make VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 ccomp _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:acl:relcl 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 baddie baddie NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ _ 15 talk talk VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 xcomp _ _ 16 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 17 det _ _ 17 posh posh ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=15:obj 18 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: evaluate - voice: character - polarity: pos - teacher: changed act=evaluate, voice=character, polarity=pos | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Mark in Bristol | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **make** *in a quote* | past | the writer | the baddie | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **talk** *in a quote* | infinitive | the baddie *not said here* | | | | | posh *property* | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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:9`. **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 ×1, R7-rel-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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