--- title: Liverpool and Manchester speakers say "our kid" for a brother or sis… — Commas: lists, clauses and clarity · tree and pragmatics description: Liverpool and Manchester speakers say "our kid" for a brother or sister and "me mam" for my mum; in formal writing these become "my brother" and "my mum". Who acts: Liverpool speakers, these. 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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 (Liverpool speakers, these), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:english:033-commas-lists-clauses-and-clarity.lesson:17 # text = Liverpool and Manchester speakers say "our kid" for a brother or sister and "me mam" for my mum; in formal writing these become "my brother" and "my mum". # source = school lesson (ours) # course = english # lesson = 033-commas-lists-clauses-and-clarity.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, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 Liverpool Liverpool PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 2 and and CCONJ CC _ 3 cc _ _ 3 Manchester Manchester PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 conj _ _ 4 speakers speaker NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 5 say say VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 " " PUNCT `` _ 8 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=8:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 7 our our PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 8 nmod:poss _ _ 8 kid kid NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 9 " " PUNCT '' _ 8 punct _ _ 10 for for ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 brother brother NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nmod _ _ 13 or or CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 14 sister sister NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 conj _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 16 " " PUNCT `` _ 17 punct _ _ 17 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 14 conj _ _ 18 mam mam NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 conj _ _ 19 " " PUNCT '' _ 18 punct _ _ 20 for for ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 22 nmod:poss _ _ 22 mum mum NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nmod _ _ 23 ; ; PUNCT : _ 28 punct _ _ 24 in in ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 formal formal ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 writing writing NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obl _ _ 27 these this PRON DT Number=Plur|PronType=Dem 28 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=28:nsubj|HaikuPos=DET:DT:Number=Plur|PronType=Dem 28 become become VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 29 " " PUNCT `` _ 31 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=28:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 30 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 31 nmod:poss _ _ 31 brother brother NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 xcomp _ _ 32 " " PUNCT '' _ 31 punct _ _ 33 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 34 " " PUNCT `` _ 36 punct _ _ 35 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 36 nmod:poss _ _ 36 mum mum NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 conj _ _ 37 " " PUNCT '' _ 36 punct _ _ 38 . . PUNCT . _ 5 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 | Liverpool speakers | our kid and mam for my mum | | | | for a brother or sister | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent kid=Topic | | 2 | **become** | present | these | my brother and my mum | | | | in formal writing *result* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in writing=Result | 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:033-commas-lists-clauses-and-clarity.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): R6-punct-agree ×1, 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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Commas: lists, clauses and clarity, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/33-commas-lists-clauses-and-clarity/16/) - next →: [Apostrophes: missing letters and belon…, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/34-apostrophes-missing-letters-and-belonging/0/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/33-commas-lists-clauses-and-clarity/)