--- title: Freya in Melbourne asks, «Arvo is a noun, yeah nah?» (arvo is Austra… — Word classes: the jobs words do · tree and pragmatics description: Freya in Melbourne asks, «Arvo is a noun, yeah nah?» (arvo is Australian for afternoon, and yeah nah means no or not really). Who acts: Freya, Arvo. 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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 (Freya, Arvo), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:english:027-word-classes-the-jobs-words-do.lesson:16 # text = Freya in Melbourne asks, «Arvo is a noun, yeah nah?» (arvo is Australian for afternoon, and yeah nah means no or not really). # source = school lesson (ours) # course = english # lesson = 027-word-classes-the-jobs-words-do.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 ×1 1 Freya Freya PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 2 in in ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 3 Melbourne Melbourne PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 nmod _ _ 4 asks ask VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 6 « « PUNCT `` _ 10 punct _ _ 7 Arvo arvo PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=10:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 8 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 cop _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 noun noun NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 ccomp _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 12 yeah yeah INTJ UH _ 4 discourse _ _ 13 nah nah INTJ UH _ 4 discourse _ _ 14 ? ? PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ 15 » » PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ _ 16 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 19 punct _ _ 17 arvo arvo NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nsubj _ _ 18 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 cop _ _ 19 Australian Australian ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 parataxis _ _ 20 for for ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 afternoon afternoon NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 24 yeah yeah INTJ UH _ 26 discourse _ _ 25 nah nah INTJ UH _ 26 discourse _ _ 26 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 27 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 26 obj _ _ 28 or or CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 29 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 30 advmod _ _ 30 really really ADV RB _ 27 conj _ _ 31 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 27 punct _ _ 32 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **ask** *speech: ask* | present | Freya in Melbourne | | | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | Arvo | a noun | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **is** | present | arvo | | | | afternoon | australian *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **mean** | present | | no | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent no=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:027-word-classes-the-jobs-words-do.lesson:16`. **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 ×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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Word classes: the jobs words do, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/27-word-classes-the-jobs-words-do/15/) - next →: [Word classes: the jobs words do, 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/27-word-classes-the-jobs-words-do/17/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/27-word-classes-the-jobs-words-do/)