--- title: Chloe in Cardiff says, «This poem's lush, but I don't get it» (lush… — Reading poems: meaning, sound and pictures · tree and pragmatics description: Chloe in Cardiff says, «This poem's lush, but I don't get it» (lush is Welsh slang for lovely): liking a poem before you understand it is normal, so read it again. Who acts: Chloe, poem, lush, 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 (Chloe, poem, lush, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:english:025-reading-poems-meaning-sound-and-pictures.lesson:17 # text = Chloe in Cardiff says, «This poem's lush, but I don't get it» (lush is Welsh slang for lovely): liking a poem before you understand it is normal, so read it again. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = english # lesson = 025-reading-poems-meaning-sound-and-pictures.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): R8-pos-agree ×2 1 Chloe Chloe PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 2 in in ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 3 Cardiff Cardiff PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 nmod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=1:nmod|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 4 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 6 « « PUNCT `` _ 10 punct _ _ 7 This this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 8 det _ _ 8 poem poem NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 9 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 cop _ _ 10 lush lush ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 ccomp _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 12 but but CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 13 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 14 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 aux _ _ 15 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 16 advmod _ _ 16 get get VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 conj _ _ 17 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 obj _ _ 18 » » PUNCT '' _ 16 punct _ _ 19 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 23 punct _ _ 20 lush lush NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ _ 21 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 cop _ _ 22 Welsh welsh ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 23 slang slang NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 parataxis _ _ 24 for for ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 lovely lovely ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 nmod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=23:nmod|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 26 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 23 punct _ _ 27 : : PUNCT : _ 39 punct _ _ 28 liking like VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 36 csubj _ _ 29 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 poem poem NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obj _ _ 31 before before SCONJ IN _ 33 mark _ _ 32 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 33 nsubj _ _ 33 understand understand VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 advcl _ _ 34 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 36 expl _ _ 35 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 36 cop _ _ 36 normal normal ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 parataxis _ _ 37 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 38 so so ADV RB _ 39 advmod _ _ 39 read read VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 36 conj _ _ 40 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 39 obj _ _ 41 again again ADV RB _ 39 advmod _ _ 42 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Chloe in Cardiff | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **is** *in a quote* | present | this poem | | | | | lush *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **not** **get** *in a quote* | present · do-support | Chloe in Cardiff *= chloe* | lot | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **is a** | present | lush | Welsh slang | | | | for lovely | tree rules | | 5 | **like** | gerund | | a poem | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot poem=Theme | | 6 | **understand** | present | you | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 7 | **is** | present | liking | | | | | normal *property* | tree rules | | 8 | **read** | infinitive | liking *not said here* | lot | | | again | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic | 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:025-reading-poems-meaning-sound-and-pictures.lesson:17`. **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): R8-pos-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. 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