--- title: Slang: «mardy» (North and Midlands of England) means grumpy or sulky… — Reading non-fiction: recount, instructions, report · tree and pragmatics description: Slang: «mardy» (North and Midlands of England) means grumpy or sulky; «heaps» (Australia) can mean very or a lot. Who acts: Slang, heaps. A sentence of the lesson «Reading non-fiction: recount, instructions, report» of the english course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the prag --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/23-reading-non-fiction-recount-instructions-report/33/) [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/) / [Reading non-fiction: recount, instruct…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/23-reading-non-fiction-recount-instructions-report/) / 33 # Reading non-fiction: recount, instructions, report, sentence 33 Slang: «mardy» (North and Midlands of England) means grumpy or sulky; «heaps» (Australia) can mean very or a lot. **Who acts:** Slang, heaps · **What happens:** mardy, mean · **To what, where:** North Midlands · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «Reading non-fiction: recount, instructions, report» 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 (Slang, heaps), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:english:023-reading-non-fiction-recount-instructions-report.lesson:33 # text = Slang: «mardy» (North and Midlands of England) means grumpy or sulky; «heaps» (Australia) can mean very or a lot. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = english # lesson = 023-reading-non-fiction-recount-instructions-report.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 ×2 1 Slang slang NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 2 : : PUNCT : _ 4 punct _ _ 3 « « PUNCT `` _ 4 punct _ _ 4 mardy mardy VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=1:acl:relcl 5 » » PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ _ 6 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 7 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=9:punct 7 North North PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 compound _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 9 Midlands Midlands PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 10 of of ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 England England PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 nmod _ _ 12 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 9 punct _ _ 13 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 14 grumpy grumpy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 conj _ _ 15 or or CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 16 sulky sulky ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 conj _ _ 17 ; ; PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 18 « « PUNCT `` _ 19 punct _ _ 19 heaps heap NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 nsubj _ _ 20 » » PUNCT '' _ 19 punct _ _ 21 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 22 punct _ _ 22 Australia Australia PROPN NNP Number=Sing 19 appos _ _ 23 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 22 punct _ _ 24 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 25 aux _ _ 25 mean mean VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 parataxis _ _ 26 very very ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 27 or or CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 28 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 lot lot NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 conj _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=13:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **mardy** *in a quote* | infinitive | | North Midlands of England | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **mean** | present | Slang | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **mean** | can | heaps | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: 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:023-reading-non-fiction-recount-instructions-report.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 ×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/). - ← previous: [Reading non-fiction: recount, instruct…, 32](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/23-reading-non-fiction-recount-instructions-report/32/) - next →: [Persuasive letters, newspaper articles…, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/24-persuasive-letters-newspaper-articles-and-diaries/0/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/23-reading-non-fiction-recount-instructions-report/)