--- title: In Scotland "cannae" means can't, "dinnae" means don't, and "wee" me… — Active and passive voice, modal verbs · tree and pragmatics description: In Scotland "cannae" means can't, "dinnae" means don't, and "wee" means little. Who acts: cannae, dinnae, wee. A sentence of the lesson «Active and passive voice, modal verbs» 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/32-active-and-passive-voice-modal-verbs/18/) [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/) / [Active and passive voice, modal verbs](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/32-active-and-passive-voice-modal-verbs/) / 18 # Active and passive voice, modal verbs, sentence 18 In Scotland "cannae" means can't, "dinnae" means don't, and "wee" means little. **Who acts:** cannae, dinnae, wee · **What happens:** mean, not do · **To what, where:** little · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «Active and passive voice, modal verbs» 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 (cannae, dinnae, wee), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:english:032-active-and-passive-voice-modal-verbs.lesson:18 # text = In Scotland "cannae" means can't, "dinnae" means don't, and "wee" means little. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = english # lesson = 032-active-and-passive-voice-modal-verbs.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 ×1 1 In in ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 Scotland Scotland PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 3 " " PUNCT `` _ 4 punct _ _ 4 cannae cannae NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 5 " " PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ _ 6 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 ca can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 6 ccomp _ _ 8 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 7 advmod _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 10 " " PUNCT `` _ 11 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=7:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 11 dinnae dinnae X FW Foreign=Yes 13 nsubj _ _ 12 " " PUNCT '' _ 11 punct _ _ 13 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ _ 14 do do VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 ccomp _ _ 15 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 14 advmod _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 18 " " PUNCT `` _ 19 punct _ _ 19 wee wee NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nsubj _ _ 20 " " PUNCT '' _ 19 punct _ _ 21 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ _ 22 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 obj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=21:xcomp 23 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **mean** | present | cannae | | | | | in Scotland | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot in scotland=Attribute | | 2 | **mean** | present | dinnae | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **not** **do** | present | | | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **mean** | present | wee | little | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent little=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:032-active-and-passive-voice-modal-verbs.lesson:18`. **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 ×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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