--- title: In Manchester "our kid" means my brother or sister and "dead boss" m… — Direct speech: inverted commas and new speakers · tree and pragmatics description: In Manchester "our kid" means my brother or sister and "dead boss" means really great; in Belfast "Da" is Dad and an "eejit" is an idiot. Who acts: kid, dead boss, Da, eejit. 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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 (kid, dead boss, Da, eejit), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:english:035-direct-speech-inverted-commas-and-new-speakers.lesson:15 # text = In Manchester "our kid" means my brother or sister and "dead boss" means really great; in Belfast "Da" is Dad and an "eejit" is an idiot. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = english # lesson = 035-direct-speech-inverted-commas-and-new-speakers.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): R3-conj-first ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1 1 In in ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 Manchester Manchester PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 3 " " PUNCT `` _ 5 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=2:punct 4 our our PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 5 nmod:poss _ _ 5 kid kid NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 6 " " PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ _ 7 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 9 nmod:poss _ _ 9 brother brother NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 10 or or CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 sister sister NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 conj _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 13 " " PUNCT `` _ 15 punct _ _ 14 dead dead ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 boss boss NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nsubj _ _ 16 " " PUNCT '' _ 15 punct _ _ 17 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 18 really really ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 19 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 xcomp _ _ 20 ; ; PUNCT : _ 7 punct _ _ 21 in in ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 Belfast Belfast PROPN NNP Number=Sing 27 obl _ _ 23 " " PUNCT `` _ 24 punct _ _ 24 Da Da PROPN NNP Number=Sing 27 nsubj _ _ 25 " " PUNCT '' _ 24 punct _ _ 26 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 cop _ _ 27 Dad Dad PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=17:conj 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 29 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 30 " " PUNCT `` _ 31 punct _ _ 31 eejit eejit NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 nsubj _ _ 32 " " PUNCT '' _ 31 punct _ _ 33 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 35 cop _ _ 34 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 idiot idiot NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 conj _ _ 36 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **mean** | present | our kid | my brother or sister | | | | in Manchester | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot brother=Theme in manchester=Attribute | | 2 | **mean** | present | dead boss | | | | | great *property* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **is a** | present | Da | Dad and a idiot | | Belfast | | | tree rules | | 4 | **is a** | present | a eejit | a idiot | | | | | tree rules | 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:035-direct-speech-inverted-commas-and-new-speakers.lesson:15`. **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): R3-conj-first ×1, R6-punct-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: [Direct speech: inverted commas and new…, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/35-direct-speech-inverted-commas-and-new-speakers/14/) - next →: [Brackets, dashes, colons, semicolons a…, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/36-brackets-dashes-colons-semicolons-and-hyphens/0/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/35-direct-speech-inverted-commas-and-new-speakers/)