--- title: In British slang "well" means very, as in "I'm well tired"; no hyphe… — Brackets, dashes, colons, semicolons and hyphens · tree and pragmatics description: In British slang "well" means very, as in "I'm well tired"; no hyphen is needed there. Who acts: dashes. A sentence of the lesson «Brackets, dashes, colons, semicolons and hyphens» 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/36-brackets-dashes-colons-semicolons-and-hyphens/14/) [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/) / [Brackets, dashes, colons, semicolons a…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/36-brackets-dashes-colons-semicolons-and-hyphens/) / 14 # Brackets, dashes, colons, semicolons and hyphens, sentence 14 In British slang "well" means very, as in "I'm well tired"; no hyphen is needed there. **Who acts:** dashes · **What happens:** mean, be, need · **To what, where:** hyphen · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «Brackets, dashes, colons, semicolons and hyphens» 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 (dashes), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:english:036-brackets-dashes-colons-semicolons-and-hyphens.lesson:14 # text = In British slang "well" means very, as in "I'm well tired"; no hyphen is needed there. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = english # lesson = 036-brackets-dashes-colons-semicolons-and-hyphens.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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 In in ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 British British ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 slang slang NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 4 " " PUNCT `` _ 5 punct _ _ 5 well well INTJ UH _ 3 discourse _ _ 6 " " PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=3:punct 7 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 very very ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 10 as as SCONJ IN _ 16 mark _ _ 11 in in ADP IN _ 10 fixed _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:mark|HaikuPos=SCONJ:IN:_ 12 " " PUNCT `` _ 16 punct _ _ 13 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 14 'm be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 cop _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=16:aux 15 well well ADV RB Degree=Pos 16 advmod _ _ 16 tired tire VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 7 conj _ _ 17 " " PUNCT '' _ 16 punct _ _ 18 ; ; PUNCT : _ 22 punct _ _ 19 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 20 det _ _ 20 hyphen hyphen NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nsubj:pass _ _ 21 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 aux:pass _ _ 22 needed need VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 7 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:conj 23 there there ADV RB PronType=Dem 22 advmod _ _ 24 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: neg - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **mean** | present | | | | | | in British slang | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot in slang=Attribute | | 2 | **is** *in a quote* | present | dashes *= dash* | | | | | tire, well *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **need** | present · passive | | no hyphen | | there | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: subject=Theme | 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:036-brackets-dashes-colons-semicolons-and-hyphens.lesson:14`. **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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-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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