--- title: In Leeds and other parts of Northern England "well" means very, as i… — Paragraphs and cohesion: holding a text together · tree and pragmatics description: In Leeds and other parts of Northern England "well" means very, as in "well long"; in Gen Alpha slang "slay" means do brilliantly. Who acts: Gen slang. 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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 (Gen slang), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:english:037-paragraphs-and-cohesion-holding-a-text-together.lesson:16 # text = In Leeds and other parts of Northern England "well" means very, as in "well long"; in Gen Alpha slang "slay" means do brilliantly. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = english # lesson = 037-paragraphs-and-cohesion-holding-a-text-together.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 ×2 1 In in ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 Leeds Leeds PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 obl _ _ 3 and and CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 4 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 parts part NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 conj _ _ 6 of of ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 Northern Northern ADJ NNP Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 England England PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nmod _ _ 9 " " PUNCT `` _ 10 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=12:punct 10 well well INTJ UH _ 12 nsubj _ _ 11 " " PUNCT '' _ 10 punct _ _ 12 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 29 conj _ _ 13 very very ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 15 as as SCONJ IN _ 19 mark _ _ 16 in in ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 17 " " PUNCT `` _ 19 punct _ _ 18 well well ADV RB Degree=Pos 19 advmod _ _ 19 long long ADV RB Degree=Pos 12 obj _ _ 20 " " PUNCT '' _ 19 punct _ _ 21 ; ; PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 22 in in ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 Gen Gen PROPN NNP Number=Sing 25 compound _ _ 24 Alpha Alpha PROPN NNP Number=Sing 23 flat _ _ 25 slang slang NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nsubj _ _ 26 " " PUNCT `` _ 27 punct _ _ 27 slay slay VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 25 parataxis _ _ 28 " " PUNCT '' _ 27 punct _ _ 29 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 30 do do VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 29 xcomp _ _ 31 brilliantly brilliantly ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ _ 32 . . PUNCT . _ 12 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=29: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 | | | | | | in Leeds and other parts of Northern England | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot long=Theme in leeds=Attribute | | 2 | **slay** *in a quote* | infinitive | | | | | | | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **mean** | present | Gen slang | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **do** *not said to happen* | infinitive | Gen slang *not said here* | | | | | brilliantly *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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:037-paragraphs-and-cohesion-holding-a-text-together.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): R6-punct-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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